Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world.
With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity’s role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.
‘An ambitious, hilarious, clever beast of a novel’ Paul Daley
‘A thought-provoking, funny and stunningly inventive book.’ Arts Hub
‘A laugh-out-loud historic fable.’ The Big Issue
‘This novel is laugh-out-loud funny’ The Australian
‘An ambitious comic odyssey.’ The West Australian
‘A funny and fascinating journey through time.’ Readings Monthly
The Australian book you've finally got time for
Chris Flynn in conversation with Nick Earls
Chris Flynn with Dymocks' Chapter One
Chris Flynn in-conversation with Clare Wright for Geelong Regional Libraries
Big Mammoth Magic: Chris Flynn in conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert
Take Home Reading for The Wheeler Centre
Chris Flynn on Science Write Now
ABC Radio National Earshot: Worm Holes and Dinosaur Trails
Readers and Writers Podcast with Chris Flynn
At lunch with Chris Flynn for The Age
Chris Flynn on the new Triceraptops display at Melbourne Museum for The Science Show
