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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The Time Was When

15:36 is logging on to the work computer from home to grab bits of code to use on a freelance project from home… #trulymadlygeeky # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

23:31 An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a business that knows it’s shit #apostropheday /via @keridavies # 09:58 thinks that the web designers of Facebook must get bored really easily. I don’t even…

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22:41 very much enjoyed my evening of playing flute music. And guess what, unexpected bonus, the opening night of cbb completely passed me by! 🙂 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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18:54 : another ‘weigh-in’ and another 1lb lost. Just three more to go until I get to my first (mile)stone… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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12:17 is hungry and fighting off the urge to go in search of munchies… # 12:56 : four minutes till munchies… #whenlunchcomesnotamomentoosoon # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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Away from the wedding crowds…

Kathryn drifted off to explore some of the other rooms, finding a long gallery filled with pictures – some old paintings and some modern photographs. She was drawn instinctively to one, recognising it immediately as herself, taken by Louis when…

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The Time Was When

22:41 more mis-readings of my own handwriting: “don’t know the brick and groom really–” #reallyshouldbeabletoreadmyownwriting # 12:41 : not exactly lay-by writing, but I did have to stop cleaning out the rabbits to make notes… #laybywriting #writinginoddplaces # 18:41 has…

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23:11 : from the sublime to the ridiculous, the life of a writer… t.co/I9pdGuG # 23:39 Remains found on building site believed to be those of St Edburg, the patron saint of Bicester… t.co/MGCutXi #archaeology #history # 18:09 wonders if…

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The story continues…

‎”To one side a slug quartet was playing…” oh, no, that should be string quartet…! Such was the realisation that I really should be able to read my own ​writing. Of course, on reading this, my darling emej was kind…

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15:55 With the controversy over Blackberry Messaging and #ukriots its only a matter of time before Steve Jobs buys the company… # 15:56 (contd.) to form a new company: Apple and Blackberry. Shortly after they will launch their new gadget,…

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Syn-free quiche

The first time I made this quiche it went hideously wrong. It took far longer than advertised to cook and the finished result looked somewhat like what you might expect to find lying in pools outside pubs late on a…

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The Time Was When

08:47 can’t quite believe that @106jackfm just played I Predict A Riot. Brilliant! # 11:40 With recent criticism over the use of Blackberry Messaging, time to rebrand? Keeping the theme of autumn fruits… how about Sloe Messaging? # 13:47 It’s…

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11:09 likes the idea of adopting a word, but what word to choose? Ox Dictionaries asking people to adopt a word to save them t.co/ceYd6rK # 11:13 has just discovered magistricide (the killing of a teacher or master). I think…

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All caught up

Back home and Kathryn retrieved up the screwed up ball of paper from under her deck and flattened it out. She stood and stared at it, trying to work out if she should or not. She got as far as…

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The Time Was When

23:41 has very much enjoyed @creationtheatre’s Anthony & Cleopatra: didn’t know the story beforehand but they carried me with it. Brilliant! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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10:01 Two pints of Birdsnest and – a couple of stilton burgers and chunky chips, please: I created a local beer for the city of Wren Hoe! #writing # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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23:12 just realised that I wrote tow path as toe. Oops! #spellingerrors # 08:56 : there appears to be a queue for the nestboxes, hence a certain amount of unnecessary squawking. There are of course 2 nestboxes. #chickens # 11:09…

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