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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How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?
Read moreWe were very much enjoying last night’s film Eric and Ernie right up until the point that got a callout to a dog that was whelping, and seeing as I had never seen a whelping before and how sometimes an…
Continue reading23:55 : is amused that T C Hobbit wrote the Lord of the Rings (Helen on Articulate) # 00:27 would like to take this moment to wish everyone a very happy new year. Hope Twenty-Eleven is a good year for…
Continue readingI don’t know exactly why, but I fell to thinking about board games this afternoon, and in particular, remembering the RSPB Conservation Board Game we used to play when I was young. I’ve searched for this periodically on the internet,…
Continue reading23:16 would now very much like to read #Toast. Have sent a free sample to my #kindle… # 18:28 keeps on misreading #sattc as #satanic – is this itself a clue? #thearchers # 19:20 has just listened to Friday’s #archers…
Continue readingOn this day, each year, I now traditionally round up my reading for the year in the vague hope that I will have fulfilled my perennial resolution to read more. Sadly, this year, by number of books alone, I have…
Continue readingWhilst browsing my archives I realised that I have been keeping a journal, of some description for some twenty years – or be it only in these ePages for some seven years. I still have my first ‘diary’, a five-year…
Continue reading11:53 has done some jobs; its raining now – please may I hibernate now for the rest of the day? #daysbetweenChristmasandNewYear # 12:11 I scored 9 out of 12 on the BBC News Quiz www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12068874 # 15:17 pondering the #sattc…
Continue readingIt never ceases to amaze me that no matter where Christmas falls in the week there is are always three, and only three, days which are work days for (some/most/a lot of) people. Emma is one of those people and…
Continue reading23:02 loved the Christmas episode of #DrWho. I hope RTD was watching and taking notes about how to write… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingThe thick snow has now been replaced by a slow thaw and an endless fog and gloom. We head out in the morning for a very foggy drive to Thame (why do so many people, particularly in fog-coloured cars, drive…
Continue readingAnd so it came to be Boxing Day at last, and for a trip out to Hazlemere to see the other side of the family. We drove first to Amersham, through stll snowy roads, to collect Grannie, and then on…
Continue readingI woke up this morning to the most blazing of red skies in the mornings, shepherd’s warnings of sunrises. Against a snowy Blissford, it was beautiful and I snatched up my camera to try and get some impression of it….
Continue reading12:25 and @EmmaEShepherd would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading11:52 has had his faith in couriers restored… 🙂 # 15:54 : Emma says about my singing: ‘You’re not tone deaf; you just don’t get the right notes.’ Umm, thanks, I think… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingWe spent the morning packing our bags, and the presents and making sure the animals were sorted for the weekend – during which time the new fencing unexpectedly arrived, and, in the nick of time the ‘unofficial’ wedding album arrived…
Continue reading11:00 now wonders which Amazon delivery will arrive first? The original or the replacement? Expedited delivery my a***… # 14:05 is pleased to see that the unofficial wedding album has now landed in the country. #outstandingpackages #onlineparceltrackingiscompulsive # 16:44 has…
Continue reading“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was…
Continue reading10:50 is a little perturbed to see more snow falling… # 11:23 My @blurbbooks delivery should be with me Christmas Eve. Come on FedEx, get it to me by midday! 🙂 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingI dispatched Emma to work this morning and set about a leisurely morning doing things around the house. I fed and watered the chickens, the bunnies and the wild birds, processed some washing, changed the beds, and wrapped Emma’s presents…
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