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Ben Ball worked in the UK for a decade, including the role of editorial director, fiction, with Simon & Schuster and reviewer of Australian fiction for the Times Literary Supplement. In 2005, Ball returned to Australia as publisher of adult books for Penguin and, in 2011, succeeded Bob Sessions as Penguin's publishing director.