We are pleased to be publishing The Extinction Club, a new novel by Jeffrey Moore, in 2010. More information about it will be posted here soon.

Jeffrey Moore was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and the Sorbonne (Paris). In addition to lecturing at all four Montreal universities, he has worked as a translator for theatre and dance troupes, film festivals and museums throughout the world. His first novel, Prisoner in a Red–Rose Chain, won the Commonwealth Prize (Best First Novel) in 2000, while his second novel, The Memory Artists, won the 2005 Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize, the Hugh MacLennan Prize, the WordsWorthy Award and Sunburst Award. Both novels have been optioned for film and published in some twenty countries. His latest novel, The Extinction Club, will be published by Hamish Hamilton Canada in spring of 2010.

Praise For The Memory Artists

“The characters are well–meaning, generous and sweet–even the brilliant, misanthropic (and hilarious) ladies' man Norval… This is a rich novel, erudite and funny... The Memory Artists is a pleasure to read; it's strangely uplifting to spend time with these flawed but humane characters.” —The New York Times

“A wonderfully complex and unpredictably moving novel that juggles five deeply written and unique characters who are hard to forget.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Essential reading.” —Esquire

“Genuinely moving…characters both unique and recognisable” —Vancouver Sun

Praise for Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain

"A sparkling first novel by a young writer of whom more will surely be heard. It is a clever book, dense with literary allusions, but also a heart–warming one, with a thoroughly likeable hero, as romantic as he is accident–prone… The extravagance of the plot is matched by the exuberance of the writing." —Max Davidson, Sunday Telegraph

“Exuberant and smart…Red Rose Chain signals the arrival of a new, sophisticated comic author who combines John Irving’s inventive virtuosity with Tom Greens contempt for everything stuffy and comfy in our culture.” —National Post

"A book full of quirks and quick–turns, wit and erudition. Entertaining and exhausting, it's reminiscent of the early John Irving." —Ian Sansom, The Guardian