George RR Martin opens bookshop next to his cinema in Santa Fe

Beastly Books is adjacent to the Jean Cocteau picturehouse and promises to stock signed copies of the Game of Thrones author’s books

George RR Martin has opened a bookshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico – although it isn’t, as yet, stocking his long-awaited novel The Winds of Winter.

The Song of Ice and Fire novelist, who acquired the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe in 2013, has now opened the Beastly Books store next door. The shop is named in honour of what Martin said was Cocteau’s most famous film, Beauty and the Beast, as well as “a certain TV show I worked on in the 80s” with the same name.

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