True North: A Memoir

Catherine Deveny is the author of It's Not My Fault They Print Them (2007), Say When (2008) and Free To A Good Home (2009). She is a television comedy writer, comedian, author, social commentator and broadcaster well known for her work as columnist with the Age newspaper and as a ABC regular. She cites her biggest influences as Bill Hicks, Richard Dawkins, Billy Bragg and Alice Miller.

Janet Watson Kruse is an Australian stage, screen and voice actor. On screen, she is best known for TV series such as Glitch, Neighbours and Winners & Losers, shorts like The Laneway and Inside, and feature films such as Love, Tea & Epiphany and Out of Order. Her theatre roles include Vi in The Memory of Water at Chapel off Chapel, and a nine-year stint as Ellen Kelly, mother of Ned Kelly, at the Old Melbourne Gaol. Watson has also narrated a number of audiobooks, including True North by Catherine Deveny.