Award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza OAM held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Courier-Mail for many years and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his writing. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the author of twenty-one acclaimed books, including bestsellers Hudson Fysh, The Kelly Hunters, Lawson, Banks, Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly, Monash, Sons of the Southern Cross and Bert Hinkler. Brigid Gallacher is an Australian actor and director who has appeared across film, television and on stage. She held the roles of Annie and Mary in the national tour of Lamb, and also appeared in series Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and Summer Heights High. Brigid has previously narrated The Silence Between Us by Oceane Campbell and Cécile Barral, and Victoria Hannan’s Marshmallow.
'Kieza is a prolific and successful biographer ... He has a fluid writing style in which he wears his research lightly, yet it is thoroughly annotated.' (on Banks) -- Spectator Australia ‘[Grantlee Kieza] writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary … bringing historic personalities to life.’ (on Sons of the Southern Cross) -- Ballarat Courier