Chris Flynn reconsiders the memoir with the help of a 13,000-year-old fossil

The author gives old bones a new voice in Mammoth

Author Chris Flynn. Photo by Georgia Butterfield.

Difficult accents, (very) unreliable narrators, dark humour and shifting perspectives abound in Chris Flynn’s first novel, A Tiger in Eden (2012), which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize, and The Glass Kingdom (2014). Both were contemporary, evocative tales of men…