TA Moore’s Top 5 Favourite Destinations

Thursday May 31, 2018

Hey all! It’s been an exciting month. My new urban fantasy Stone the Crows (Wolf Winter #2) is out and I’ve been asked to talk about my Top Five Favorite….Places.

5: Paris

OK, this is going to make me sound provincial….but when I went to the Salon du Livre in 2017, that was my first ever visit to Paris. Now it’s one of my favourite places. I’ve walked miles through Paris, powered only by mocha and curiosity. It’s a beautiful, surprising city and I enjoy every minute of my time there.

Bookshop of the City: The Shakespeare and Company Bookshop is a gorgeous, top heavy little bookshop just across from Notre Dame. https://shakespeareandcompany.com/

4: Newcastle

Newcastle is wonderful city with so much art, culture, and history to enjoy. There’s the Lit and Phil in Newcastle, Durham (which had a starring role in the first Wolf Winter book, Dog Days) is just down the road, and, right where I lived, an old Shetland ferry that had been turned into a floating biker bar. How cool is that?

Bookshop of the City: Well, a little bit outside the city, but Forum Books in Corbridge is a great place to browse. http://forumbooksandkids.com/

3: Oxford

Go to Oxford!. I always visit the Ashmolean and make my way up to admire the Boxer statue, which has a brutal elegance that just enthralls me. I also never miss a visit to Pitt Rivers Museum, where I like to check that the witch in the bottle is still in her bottle.

Bookshop of the City: I do prefer a nice indie bookstore, but Blackwell’s in Oxford is a wonderful bookshop with a great wee coffee shop upstairs. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home

2: San Diego

I love San Diego because two of my best friends in the world live there, Rhys Ford and Jenn. I got my first (and only) tattoo there, I dyed my hair for the first time, and met Frankie and Guido, the mobster meerkats, in San Diego Zoo. It’s a fun place to visit, but they’re better friends to have. If they ever moved, I’d promptly replace this with their new city.

Bookshop of the City: This is actually the bookshop where a woman accused me of having a fake English accent. She was just a customer though, and the bookshop was great. https://www.mystgalaxy.com/

1: Swindon

Where I go to hang out with my other two best friends in the world. There’s five of us basically, two in San Diego, two in the UK, and me in Northern Ireland. So Swindon has a special draw for me. Mind you, Swindon is actually a great place to visit. If you’re feeling brave you can do the Magic Roundabout (which I still haven’t done!) and it’s a great hub to head to Corsham for the peacocks or Stonehenge for the…stones.

Bookshop of the City: It’s a little bit outside the city, but Octavia’s Bookshop in Cirencester is a whimsical purple delight. http://www.octaviasbookshop.co.uk/

Stone the Crows

By TA Moore

Wolf Winter | Book Four

$19.95

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Sequel to Dog Days
A Wolf Winter Novel

When the Winter arrives, the Wolves will come down over the walls and eat little boys in their beds.

Doctor Nicholas Blake might still be afraid of the dark, but the monsters his grandmother tormented him with as a child aren’t real.

Or so he thought…until the sea freezes, the country grinds to a halt under the snow, and he finds a half-dead man bleeding out while a dead woman watches. Now his nightmares impinge on his waking life, and the only one who knows what’s going on is his unexpected patient.

For Gregor it’s simple. The treacherous prophets mutilated him and stole his brother Jack, and he’s going to kill them for it. Without his wolf, it might be difficult, but he’ll be damned if anyone else gets to kill Jack—even if he has to enlist the help of his distractingly attractive, but very human, doctor.

Except maybe the prophets want something worse than death, and maybe Nick is less human than Gregor believes. As the dead gather and the old stories come true, the two men will need each other if they’re going to rescue Jack and stop the prophets’ plan to loose something more terrible than the wolf winter.