Remembering Christopher J. Moore, 1943 – 2026

Christopher J. Moore was a commissioning editor at Floris Books for 3 decades, starting in 1989, when he shared the kitchen table workspace at Christian Maclean’s house before the move to our first office at Harrison Gardens.

It was a time of expansion for Floris, and Christopher helped to strengthen the Christian Community, Steiner-Waldorf and children’s book offerings while opening the list to a wider variety of topics, especially in ecology, biodynamic wine, alternative design, complementary health, and holistic philosophy. Christopher had an understated tact with authors, an ear for good wording, and a capacity to develop ideas into a workable structure. He shepherded numerous Floris books into being, including Erwin Laszlo’s Creative Cosmos (1993), Peter Bunyard’s Gaia in Action (1996), David Lorimer’s Spirit of Science (1998), John Wilkes’s Flowforms (2003) Daniela Drescher’s In the Land of Fairies (2004) and Isabel Wyatt’s Eight-Year-Old Legends Book (2009). The last book Christopher edited for Floris was Gary Lachman’s Dreaming Ahead of Time (2022).

Christopher is remembered for what Christian describes as a characteristic ‘stroke of genius’ solution for cutting through the ever-increasing number of appointments at the Frankfurt Book Fair: ‘Why don’t we just see the people we like?’

We think of him at such events, dining on good food and better wine, in generous, amused conversation with the writers and publishers he liked – and who liked him.

Christopher retired from his work with Floris in 2020 to live beside the beautiful River Earn at Comrie in Perthshire. He died on 1^st April this year. Our thoughts are with his family.