Glass Kingdom

Chris Flynn's second novel is a daring, in-your-face story of a military veteran turned drug dealer making a living out of the Target Ball stand on sideshow alley in a travelling carnival called the Kingdom Carny life and drug deals, rural Australia and a wannabe hip-hop star looking for trouble combine to make The Glass Kingdom unlike anything you've ever read before Breaking Bad meets Ruth Park in this surprising, funny, tragic and uniquely Australian story of finding your way in an unforgiving world Chris Flynn writes for local and international publications from the Age to the Paris Review Daily, and is well-known in Australia's literary landscape A Tiger in Eden was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2012 Author will be a guest of major literary festivals in 2014 Author lives in Balwyn, Melbourne Author was named one of Sydney Morning Herald's twelve new faces to watch in the arts in 2012