Ryan O’Neill was born in Glasgow in 1975 and lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Australia.His short story collection The Weight of a Human Heart was shortlisted for the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards.His debut novel Their Brilliant Careers, first published in Australia in 2016, won the Australian PM's Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.He lives in Sydney..

• 1. The Drover's Wife, 2. Hemingwayesque, 3. Tanka, 4. A Year 8 English Essay, 5. List of Ingredients, 6. A Cryptic Crossword, 7. A Child's Drawing, 8. An Agony Aunt Column, 9. Sporting Commentary, 10. A Disease, 11. Lipogram, 12. Freudian, 13. A Mixtape, 14. A 1950s Children's Book, 15. McCarthyesque, 16. Parable, 17. Editorial Comments, 18. A Children's Toy, 19. Elizabethan, 20. Lecture Slides, 21. A Gossip Column, 22. Glaswegian, 23. A Self-Published Novel Cover, 24. Cento, 25. A Pop Song, 26. A Fine Wine, 27. A 1980s Computer Game, 28. Yoked Sentences, 29. A Dance, 30. A School Play, 31. Cosmo Quiz, 32. Political Cartoon, 33. A Fable, 34. Emojis, 35. Backwards, 36. A Card Game, 37. Horoscope, 38. Cliches, 39. Tweets, 40. A Question Asked by An Audience Member at a Writers' Festival, 41. Verbless, 42. An Amazon Book Review, 43. A Choose Your Own Adventure Book, 44. Limerick, 45. An Abstract Painting, 46. An Insurance Claim, 47. A Real Estate Advertisement, 48. Songs from a Broadway Musical, 49. Pangram, 50. A Comic Strip, 51. Sensory, 52. Interrogative, 53. Stream of Consciousness, 54. Onomatopoeia, 55. Chronological, 56. A Reality TV Show, 57. Epic, 58. Maths Problems, 59. An RSPCA Report, 60. A Letter to the Daily Telegraph, 61. A Movie Review, 62. Worldcloud, 63. Hangman, 64. Monosyllabic, 65. Meme, 66. A Golden Age Detective Novel, 67. Imagist, 68. Ocker, 69. A Self-Help Book, 70. A Spam Email, 71. Punctuation, 72. Conditional, 73. An Absurdist Play, 74. N + 7, 75. Endorsements, 76. Scratch and Sniff, 77. TV Guide, 78. Spoonerisms, 79. Contemporary, 80. Lovecraftian, 81. Abecedarian, 82. Imperative, 83. Internet Comments, 84. Fill in the Blanks, 85. Finnegans Wife, 86. Classifieds, 87. Bar Graph, 88. Trivia Questions, 89. Academese, 90. Bush Ballad, 91. Biographical, 92. Univocalic, 93. Wordsearch, 94. A Crass American Sitcom, 95. Postmodern, 96. Bibliography, 97. Index, 98. A Note on the Type, 99. Paint Swatches, 100. A Sex Manual, 101. A Penthouse Letter

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