A book centred on Seymour’s Family Circus, one of Australia’s long-running travelling circuses.

Rather than focussing purely on the spectacle, Little Big Top shows the practical realities of circus life: family dynamics, work, money, movement, and the strain of keeping a small, mobile institution alive. It's a really interesting look into the history of performance. Also, if you're bored of reading the same old white Australia history, this at least shows a different perspective, a different life, a different landscape. 

Fred A. Lord writes from inside the everyday machinery of the circus — tents, towns, routines, compromises, giving a grounded portrait of a family business that is also a way of life.

Some of us are trapeze artists, in reality, or in spirit.