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I read a fantasy book about 3 or 4 years ago, and it was about this travelling circus who drove all over the world (albeit a different world from our own, with magic and random creatures) and a recurring theme in the book was that the roads "disappeared" every now and then, and I remember at first I thought they actually reappeared and rearranged themselves, but were actually just lost in the grass.

I vaguely remember the circus were running away from some evil character or force, and they came across a lake with a monster in it (not unlike a a New Zealand maori taniwha). It was a fantasy book, I'm unsure of the author and it's a relatively unknown book and I also can't remember the book cover =[

This sounds like Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...

When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future.

In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland's family's traveling circus troop, Maddigan's Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial task of obtaining a new solar converter, the only power source in Solis, because the old one is failing.

Misfortune finds the Fantasia in their travels, and Garland's father dies in an attack by Road Rats. Then suddenly two mysterious boys, Timon and Eden, appear with their baby sister, claiming to be from the future -- a world in which the Fantasia has failed in its mission and the evil Nennog has taken power. The boys have come to help the Fantasia, but danger has followed them across time. Can the Fantasia protect Timon and Eden, and succeed in their quest to save their world?

Internationally renowned author Margaret Mahy spins a vivid tale of time travel, adventure, and magic that no reader will soon forget.

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "This sounds like Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...

When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have co..."

=O THAT'S IT!

I can't believe you figured it out, it's been annoying me for ages XD

I love Margaret Mahy, and I read this book last year!