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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12:46 : Oh the drama of a rugged coastline, quite literally bit.ly/gDvVHL via @amandahone # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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10:01 is about to find out what Abridge Extra is all about… #archers # 10:18 is not sure about Ambridge Extra: sounds more like Hollyoaks for radio, but Ellidor on Sunday sounds like it might be good #r4extra #archers #…

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10:01 is about to find out what Abridge Extra is all about… #archers # 10:18 is not sure about Ambridge Extra: sounds more like Hollyoaks for radio, but Ellidor on Sunday sounds like it might be good #r4extra #archers #…

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22:37 Tomorrow is World Autism Awareness Day #WAAD – find out more here t.co/ASdgFjt via @stephenfry # 10:49 has just realised that I know the winners of the 2010 Smallholder of the Year award! #smallworld # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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22:37 Tomorrow is World Autism Awareness Day #WAAD – find out more here t.co/ASdgFjt \via @stephenfry # 10:49 has just realised that I know the winners of the 2010 Smallholder of the Year award! #smallworld # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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07:38 listening to #Today and watching @bbcbreakfast with a degree of suspicion… #AprilFools # 09:21 thinks I heard the tale end of @r4today’s #AprilFool – some rediculous thing about Scottish space tourism… # 09:36 Ridiculous! @r4today Does 3D Radio work…

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07:38 listening to #Today and watching @bbcbreakfast with a degree of suspicion… #AprilFools # 09:21 thinks I heard the tale end of @r4today’s #AprilFool – some rediculous thing about Scottish space tourism… # 09:36 Ridiculous! @r4today Does 3D Radio work…

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10:13 is confused. In UK English, definitively, is it towards or toward? #grammar # 16:32 The double standards of green anti-nuclear opponents | George Monbiot t.co/oQjtqs3 via @guardian # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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10:13 is confused. In UK English, definitively, is it towards or toward? #grammar # 16:32 The double standards of green anti-nuclear opponents | George Monbiot t.co/oQjtqs3 \via @guardian # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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15:03 The @nationaltrust want you to tweet the postcode of bluebells in flower, tag #bluebellwatch with a picture via twitpic bit.ly/eJX2XJ # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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15:03 The @nationaltrust want you to tweet the postcode of bluebells in flower, tag #bluebellwatch with a picture via twitpic bit.ly/eJX2XJ # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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14:11 : people have favourites—you can divide the fans roughly into Archer’s Goon and Fire and Hemlock people: bit.ly/fXd2g2 # 14:56 also used to look under both the Js and the Ws: the wild magic of Diana Wynne Jones t.co/tL6fufR…

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14:11 : people have favourites—you can divide the fans roughly into Archer’s Goon and Fire and Hemlock people: bit.ly/fXd2g2 # 14:56 also used to look under both the Js and the Ws: the wild magic of Diana Wynne Jones t.co/tL6fufR…

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Once every ten years

In a BBC Radio 4 Tracing Your Roots census special, they gave a very cool idea, that, before you send off your form, you photocopy it and keep it safe to hand down through the generations so that your own…

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Once every ten years

In a BBC Radio 4 Tracing Your Roots census special, they gave a very cool idea, that, before you send off your form, you photocopy it and keep it safe to hand down through the generations so that your own…

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Equally Cursed and Blessed

This weekend, one of my favourite authors of all time, Diana Wynne Jones, died. I knew that she had been badly ill but it still came as a bit of a shock, after all she was still very much, actively,…

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10:27 : Elbow win Dynamic Range Day Award 2011 t.co/1WhIfrW #DRD11 # 11:17 is so proud of @EmmaEShepherd & her 88% in her last assignment. If there’s something strange; with your pussycats, ya know who ya gonna call # 14:06…

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