A review by lisa_setepenre
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill

5.0

Their Brilliant Careers is a brilliant work of meta-fiction, a collection of biographies of sixteen celebrated and completely invented Australian authors. There’s Addison Tiller, the celebrated writer of the bush who never left Sydney and hated his success, the experimental writer, Arthur ruhtrA who achieved the impossible and united the poetry world against him, the great Sydney Steele who may have struck a devil’s bargain for his talent, and the talentless Vivien Darkbloom who knew how to work a room. It is a tale of blackmail, subterfuge, arson, plagiarism, murder, sex and sabotage that’s wickedly smart, wickedly funny and just plain wicked.