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 why these fossils were unearthed, MAMMOTH leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to 19th Century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world.

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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.

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For more info on MAMMOTH, visit the UQP website. uqp.com.au

 

MAMMOTH was shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards and The Russell Prize for Humour Writing.

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"A tour-de-force, a brilliant book, a witty vaccine for the planet." SEBASTIAN BARRY

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"Chris Flynn has written a brilliant, hilarious and curiously moving novel, featuring one of the best narrators in literary history and - without a doubt - the single best narrator in natural history. I simply love this story." ELIZABETH GILBERT

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"Mammoth is astonishing, a novel that is by turns playful, uncomfortably excoriating, very funny and always deeply humane. It is both a requiem for lost worlds and lost time, and it is also a sheer joy." CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS

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"Mammoth is an extraordinary gambit of the storytelling imagination of Chris Flynn, and a new way of listening to all the narratives of what we have supplanted." TOM KENEALLY

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"Wry and at times hilarious...so bizarrely good. Mammoth is absurd, witty, very thoughtful, curious and simply fun." GOOD READING

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"A funny, hopeful and mostly true gargantuan tale of mass extinction, the destruction of the natural world, murderous conflict and long-dead animals talking to each other. A splendidly ambitious project." THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

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"Mammoth is a successful example of how a comic novel can entertain while delivering an earnest message." BOOKS + PUBLISHING

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"A wholly original novel with not a tired, old trope in sight! Flynn has written a gorgeous, hilarious and unique novel, with plenty to say about humanity's role in nature and pinched with a glimmer of hope to soften the blows." THE COURIER MAIL