A stage play based on the book was performed in 2012 by the Godlight Theater Company. In 2011, the Spanish edition won the Nocte award for Best International Book. It also won 2007 Ditmar Award for best novel, the 2006 Australian Shadows Award, the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Best Young Novelist Award' for 2007 and was a short-list nominee for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for best novel. Publication date 2009 Topics Clowns - Fiction, Circus - Fiction Publisher Portland. The Pilo Family Circus won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and the Golden Aurealis Award for best novel. It has also been released in an audio edition by ABC Audio, in 2007 it was released in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, Sweden, Spain, Russia, and in 2009 it was released in the United States. The Pilo Family Circus was first published in Australia in October 2006 by ABC Books in trade paperback format after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award.

It follows the story of Jamie, who, after a random incident of nearly hitting a clown with his car, finds himself being stalked by three sadistic clowns. ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can provide one by editing this article.

And JJ wants Jamie dead.This article needs an improved plot summary. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all.

Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away.this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint.

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott