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

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

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The Time Was When

06:47 finds it really annoying when you dream the writing of perfect words; but when you wake to write them they’re not so perfect #dream #writing # 17:31 now has a new ringtone of (gossiping) eider ducks for my messages……

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The Time Was When

06:47 finds it really annoying when you dream the writing of perfect words; but when you wake to write them they’re not so perfect #dream #writing # 17:31 now has a new ringtone of (gossiping) eider ducks for my messages……

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23:33 writes on the second day of advent: frozen mouths and christmas cakes… t.co/wITMbKcC #Christmas #advent # 18:33 writes on the third day of advent: a rendezvous of relatives… t.co/vrhAPIMR #advent #familygatherings # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

23:33 writes on the second day of advent: frozen mouths and christmas cakes… t.co/wITMbKcC #Christmas #advent # 18:33 writes on the third day of advent: a rendezvous of relatives… t.co/vrhAPIMR #advent #familygatherings # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

09:53 wonders if our neighbours were woken by the most awful screaming noise v. early this am? If so, that was us, in the garden, with a chicken # 13:54 Umm… soup for lunch anyone? t.co/ImTZXwn3 # 16:19 Curled up…

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The Time Was When

09:53 wonders if our neighbours were woken by the most awful screaming noise v. early this am? If so, that was us, in the garden, with a chicken # 13:54 Umm… soup for lunch anyone? t.co/ImTZXwn3 # 16:19 Curled up…

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16:09 writing about who I am and why social networking is important to me… t.co/VqFWPmi8 #socialnetworking #journals #blogging #aspergers # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

16:09 writing about who I am and why social networking is important to me… t.co/VqFWPmi8 #socialnetworking #journals #blogging #aspergers # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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On the first day of advent: reflections on who I am

The recently broadcast Newsround Special: My Autism and Me about living with aspergers prompted some further thoughts about my own life particularly in respect to where I would be without the internet. It’s a brilliant video and one that I…

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10:00 Geek maybe but not a nerd… I scored 5 out of 7 on the BBC News Quiz t.co/gBMnh2yo # 16:23 has found that if you write something thinking its going to be interesting, then its not… #lessons #socialmedia #…

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