Stuart Kells is a Melbourne-based author. He was formerly Assistant Auditor- General of the state of Victoria, and a director at KPMG. He also worked at Deloitte, S. G. Warburg and, after the 2008 financial crisis, with one of the receivers of Lehman Brothers. His history of Penguin Books, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, won the Ashurst Australian Business Literature Prize.