Name: Chris Flynn
Address: AU

Born in Belfast, CHRIS FLYNN now lives in a small town in regional Victoria. He has written four novels, a collection of short stories, and three books for children.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, The Australian, Griffith Review, Monster Children, McSweeney's, The Paris Review and many other publications. His books have been shortlisted for and won prizes such as the Indie Book Award, Commonwealth Prize, Russell Prize for Humour, Aurealis Award and Queensland Premier's Literary Award.

His work has been compared to that of Salvador Dali, Etgar Keret, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges, Irvine Welsh, Aesop, Elizabeth Gilbert, Thea Astley, Italo Calvino, PD James, John Wyndham, Roald Dahl and Edgar Allen Poe.

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Instagram: @flythefalcon

ORPHEUS NINE (Hachette, 2025)

Orpheus Nine follows the stories of three families in a small Australian town as they struggle to cope in the aftermath of a mysterious global phenomenon that claims the lives of every nine-year-old in the world. Is this the end of days or the start of something new?

"Chris Flynn is a boundary-pushing, genre-defying author of seemingly limitless imagination. In his latest novel, Orpheus Nine, he takes us into an all-too-familiar-seeming future, where an unexplainable pandemic is decimating families across the globe and tearing apart the delicate fabric of social structure. The story manages to be mysterious, comedic, terrifying, and unexpectedly moving, creating the rare novel that penetrates both the heart and mind at the same time. Massively satisfying, and absolutely unforgettable." ELIZABETH GILBERT

HERE BE LEVIATHANS (UQP, 2022)

A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey test pilot launches into space.

The stories in Here Be Leviathans take us from the storm drains under Las Vegas to the Alaskan wilderness; the rainforests of Queensland to the Chilean coastline. Narrated in Chris Flynn's unique and hilarious style by animals, places, objects and even the (very) odd human, these stories push the boundaries of the form by examining human behaviour from the perspective of the outsider.

MAMMOTH (UQP, 2020)

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.

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.

HORRIDUS (MVP, 2022)

TRICERATOPS: FATE OF THE DINOSAURS is a permanent exhibition at Melbourne Museum, featuring the perfectly-preserved 67-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of HORRIDUS, the most complete Triceratops ever discovered.