Mr Tumnal

Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone’s become real

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About me

Derbyshire born. Suffolk bred. Lives in the shires.

T E Shepherd is an author/illustrator. He writes magic realism set in our, or closely-related, worlds. His debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, was released in 2012. His second novel, and the first in the Imaginary Friends trilogy, Mr Tumnal, was published in 2014. The second in the series, The Imaginary Wife, was published in 2018, and he's currently working on the final instalment, Forgotten Friends. He is also a landscape artist, and is currently working on a project with Erica Smith aka. the Bookshop Blogger to illustrate his way round the country to produce The Booklover's Guide to Bookshops. You can find out about upcoming releases by following on Twitter, liking on Facebook, or by joining the mailing list.

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  The Imaginary Wife

The Imaginary Wife

How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?

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Sun, 16:04: #1HappyYear Day 2: Snowdrops in my garden on a sunny Sunday is the… https://t.co/JWEt5UyjKE Sun, 17:29: Let sleeping cats lie… @ Bicester Zoo https://t.co/sRAcomK1cA Sun, 17:30: Sunday afternoon! @ Bicester Zoo https://t.co/tSFEhzLuFF Sun, 17:32: Tucked up by the…

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100 Happy Days

#1HappyYear Part 2

So this afternoon, whilst typing up my as yet untyped-up travel journal from Romania in 2005, I found looking at again at a video taken during that holiday. This led me to looking at other old videos, including a couple…

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Fri, 17:34: Adorable Cat-in-a-Box to come home to… #Friday @ Bicester Zoo https://t.co/My1byeDLr0 Fri, 19:38: #Weird things come out of my brain. I couldn’t live without my weirdness. #OxfordonWater https://t.co/XNUaxJViyD Fri, 21:58: The Top 20 books that Britons have lied…

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Wed, 20:06: Was panicking that I had lost my Romanian travel journal and had… https://t.co/I5gidMPq9v Wed, 20:59: Lost in translation https://t.co/7O8sTUmdpM #books #amreading #translation #WarAndPeace Wed, 21:12: Ball of fluff. @ Bicester Zoo https://t.co/0m47gj21Va

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Lost in translation

So I’m reading War & Peace at the moment. It’s a book that has been on my To Read list for years, I guess because it is probably *the book* that everyone feels that they should (even if they don’t) read. It’s…

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Tue, 19:32: Tackling the epic https://t.co/ngvd66Q3X4 #books #amreading #WarAndPeace Tue, 20:53: 5 of 5 stars to Skellig by David Almond https://t.co/QY9sjH0ewS Tue, 21:36: Camping with Aslan Shepherd… @ Southwold, Bicester https://t.co/dsnF99HJsQ

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Tackling the epic

So this year is the year that I shall finally read War & Peace. Spurred on by the current BBC TV adaptation that is currently showing, its going well. Not that I haven’t read part of it before. After several…

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Mon, 18:54: Double yolker!! 🙂 #doubleyolker #eggs @ Southwold, Bicester https://t.co/TcrFPa8XY1

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Wed, 19:37: The Lie Tree by @FrancesHardinge is very deserved Costa Book of the Year winner. One of my stand-out reads of 2015! https://t.co/H0CuiUWPVR

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Tue, 19:56: Today’s #eggs. That’s got to be #doubleyolker, surely… @… https://t.co/DWiizdE46l

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Sat, 12:04: The day has finally come! 🙂 #EHShepard #illustration @ Granary… https://t.co/wcgz9XqEQh Sat, 12:06: Marching water… @ Granary Square, King’s Cross https://t.co/fiGbfRTVen Sat, 14:39: Lunchtime oasis in the middle of London… @ Camley Street Natural Park https://t.co/uyaSNsTKxM Sat, 14:41:…

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Fri, 13:02: I scored 5 out of 7 on the BBC 7 days 7 questions Quiz https://t.co/BtCuPYl4eL Fri, 20:48: Call me old-fashioned but a #haggis shouldn’t be this shape… https://t.co/3JOJ14k58g Fri, 21:10: Need to go Oxford’s Bodleian Librarie’s board game…

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Fri, 06:56: And so I enter the second day of having music from How To Train Your Dragon in my head…

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Thu, 13:16: I appreciate amazonuk have looked after the safety of my lightbulb… https://t.co/frfp6eMstG

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Sun, 16:36: Getting close to the fire in the hearth… @ Southwold, Bicester https://t.co/kD2jLqnlbG

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Sat, 15:00: Interesting and thought-provoking afternoon with the #History of… https://t.co/nWGArbb1cY Sat, 21:18: Black cats on the underground @ Barbican Centre https://t.co/0tBeRRnWS8 Sat, 21:19: Setting sun on St Pauls… @ St. Paul’s Cathedral https://t.co/rv00fP9d5y Sat, 21:21: Weird giant nail in…

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