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 moreSo the HS2 high-speed rail link gets the green light, and I find myself more confused than ever with my feelings about this. I am very much in favour of high speed railway, not that we need many lines in…
Continue readingEver wondered what books get up to when left unattended in a bookshop after hours…? …and this, the video that inspired them to make the follow up. Love it!
Continue reading18:59 has just experienced the worst rotten egg ever. Properly green and stinking. Thankfully not one of our girls’… # 20:38 If you’re tempted by @safestyle windows, don’t! 2nd dodgy door2door salesman, rude & abusive. Didn’t vandalise the neighbours car…
Continue readingI have a perennial New Year’s resolution to read more. One that I’ve not been doing to too good at. I keep a log of all the books I read (note: it is also updated online via the Facebook Booktracker…
Continue reading11:15 writes about the non-event political announcement which changes nothing… t.co/HLW45PIz 🙁 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingI feel pleasantly tired after a hard day’s work out in the garden. After a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast, we set ourselves to digging up the front garden, digging out the self-seeded budlea bushes and removing the old water feature…
Continue readingSo, David Cameron plans to curb ‘fat cat’ pay with people power? Or rather, when you look into it, he plans to allow shareholders to be able to veto the pay awards of chief executives. I guess, shareholders may include…
Continue reading19:16 writing on the cold, clear winter days with the best light… t.co/sRwhTxYo # 19:34 Want a unique holiday experience? 2 miles from nearest neighbour, solid fuel stove, gas lighting and no electricity! t.co/1pYlJ7BO # 19:54 Heard on BBC Radio4…
Continue readingOne of my favourite books is The Children of Green Knowe, and one of the most magical adaptations I’ve seen was the BBC’s not often seen 1986 series. Four years ago emej and I were fortunate enough to visit the…
Continue readingFurther to my previous post, seeing that Stowe’s Gothic Temple is a holiday cottage, it reminds me of what I’ve always known as The Admiralty Lookout on Lundy Island… On an island only 3 miles long and ½ mile wide…
Continue readingFollowing on from the butchers yesterday we made our pilgrimage into Bicester for the vegetables but completely forgot to pick up our passport application forms… ggrrr! Emma had ordered some barerooted trees and shrubs from Buckingham Nurseries and so, as…
Continue reading13:45 really doesn’t like it when the server that you know is dying and you want rid of goes *cold* on you on a Friday morning… # 18:20: @MHarrison13 My next tip would be don’t let *writers block* stop you….
Continue readingIt was just a bit too stressful this morning at work. I was busy making some web updates, refreshed the page, and noticed that the news feed wasn’t working. I went to logon to the server remotely, but couldn’t so…
Continue readingToday’s posting is titled as the eleventh day of Christmas because that’s what I’ve always thought. You have 24 days in advent, followed by Christmas Day, and then the day after that is the first day of Christmas, and so…
Continue reading15:08 Why we all need to microchip our pets: Mog, lost from Kidlington found 30 miles away 11 days later t.co/NaD1Wioq \via @animalfinders # 15:14 *coughs* 53 pages of corrections and I’m there… apparently… #TheNovel #TheEndofAllWorlds # Automatically bleated by…
Continue readingIt has always bothered me, as a designer with a love of the most carefully crafted books that I am limited in the fonts that I can use on websites by what users are most likely to have installed on…
Continue reading21:01 has just discovered the typographic joys of Google webfonts: t.co/YUH99PmT – make the web beautiful again! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading22:40 isn’t hating the idea of work tomorrow but it will still be a bit of a wrench, and a shock to the old system… # 22:15 writes on the dark and blustery day: t.co/p6x4bLNT # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading~ This morning was dark; very dark. It always surprises me how dark January days are – darker even than the ever-decreasingly short ones of late December – something to do with the Earth’s shift and later sunrise times and…
Continue reading16:16 hates it when you sit down to read your book to discover that you’ve put the bookmark back in completely the wrong place… #reading # 18:28 finds that the time has come to cook a special bank holiday special…
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