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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Read moreMr Tumnal has an eclectic taste in music. His music collection is entirely vinyl and (mostly) cassette, with some recent additions on CD, thus, Kathryn buys him an iPod which she has engraved for him: For your music collection and…
Continue readingMr Tumnal has an eclectic taste in music. His music collection is entirely vinyl and (mostly) cassette, with some recent additions on CD, thus, Kathryn buys him an iPod which she has engraved for him: For your music collection and…
Continue readingSun, 14:47: That nice feeling when you read something back months or years later and you think, I wrote that… #thequotableself Sun, 14:50: “Hospitals are for the old and the infirm,” clipped an aging Miss Leroy, “As I am neither,…
Continue readingSat, 12:08: On this day last year: 17/8 #oneyearon http://t.co/3kyz3pwGdT Sat, 12:09: On this day last year: 17/8 #oneyearon http://t.co/pTREBkEhtM Sat, 15:00: RT @DrAliceRoberts: I’ve designed a deckchair for Clevedon Pier! You can bid for it here: http://t.co/7TWcgl9Twr Deckchairs on…
Continue readingFri, 12:57: RT @TheStoryMuseum: Something for our cafe… Thanks @RosieErnst. Here’s our patron Michael Rosen on chocolate cake. http://t.co/gkp9uhOKNS Fri, 21:21: Hand-baked bread platter layered with a dairy spread and topped with a strawberry and rhubarb conserve… #breadandjam ° la…
Continue readingBeing as I am in that awkward space that a writer finds themself in, of having finished writing the one novel but not yet having started the next, my mind is, as I begin to read and revise Mr Tumnal,…
Continue readingBeing as I am in that awkward space that a writer finds themself in, of having finished writing the one novel but not yet having started the next, my mind is, as I begin to read and revise Mr Tumnal,…
Continue readingThu, 13:53: RT @blackwelloxford: 15 minutes until we can share the news that has got us hyper-excited #WhoWillItBe? Thu, 15:08: 20 Signs That You’re A Writer http://t.co/6TlXn9YKVw
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Continue readingTue, 20:17: Remembering Ronnie Jefferys: 1998-2013 http://t.co/T0QnJpbJ1D #cats #poetry #Ronnie Wed, 07:29: RT @JBHist: Will we put our blogs on our academic CVs one day? http://t.co/Loy0cMYBIh via @chronicle Wed, 07:30: .@Joannechocolat: For fans of my Rune books, a little taste…
Continue readingYou had that look in your eyes and that purr that defined you. You always knew what you wanted and were very good at telling us. You were loving and dependable. You couldn’t catch birds and micickles; but you did…
Continue readingYou had that look in your eyes and that purr that defined you. You always knew what you wanted and were very good at telling us. You were loving and dependable. You couldn’t catch birds and micickles; but you did…
Continue readingMon, 22:22: “@creationtheatre: A late night for @HenryVOxford team, but it’s looking superb http://t.co/IOxuNzYNtc” Can’t wait!! Mon, 23:29: BBC News – Autism ‘affects male and female brains differently’ http://t.co/5D3vKxQDZ5
Continue readingSun, 17:34: Picking ’em raspberries… @ Rectory Farm http://t.co/mnI9qmKCEW Sun, 18:25: Solveig gets an extension and new high-rise living (and we get to make use of an old rabbit run)… @… http://t.co/lmEKH18nrH Sun, 18:32: The newly renovated Bicester Zoo… @…
Continue readingSat, 15:04: RT @creationtheatre: Have you seen our #CTHenryV rehearsals mini-movie? http://t.co/Ja8wpFAZMt Only a week to go until we open @OxfordCastl… Sat, 23:39: RT @thecreativepenn: 5 Reasons to Turn to Traditional Publishers Rather than Self-Publishing http://t.co/O7mgN43bG1 via @passivevoiceblg
Continue readingFri, 15:48: Did Someone Say #selfpublishing Would Be Easy? http://t.co/Ll9E5yfm7c via @cathryanhoward @thecreativepenn Fri, 22:54: Help! I’m being mugged for my milk by a large ginger thing…!
Continue readingThu, 16:12: has a new router, but still an intermittent internet. Ah well, since its got escalated to BT I won’t have to pay my engineer call out 🙂 Thu, 17:39: RT @JBHist: What went on in beds? http://t.co/CYxtlLTORF Thu,…
Continue readingWed, 13:05: wonders why plucking an eyebrow causes you to sneeze? Wed, 16:56: First thoughts (on #MrTumnal) http://t.co/4Qrtr7KWgN #novels #progress #revision #story #writing Wed, 20:45: Just saw Kingston University on @MasterChefUK… I think they might have had the same architects…
Continue readingTue, 13:16: 5 of 5 stars to A Thread Through Time by Deborah Shepherd http://t.co/ZHyhoUiHGS Tue, 13:35: A perfect summer holiday adventure; review of A Thread Through Time by Deborah Shepherd http://t.co/gHC1sepGP8 #books #amreading #reviews Wed, 11:42: RT @hss_brookes: .@oxford_brookes…
Continue readingA Thread Through Time by Deborah Shepherd This is Deborah Shepherd’s second novel, after her debut, The Underhill Buttons, and like with Buttons it is a classic time-shift novel of the kind that Penelope Lively used to write when she…
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