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 more09:47 Dear Santa, What I would like for xmas is to be able to have safe journey to mum and dad’s and back again without the inconvenience of snow. # 10:57 thinks that the thing that rocks Ambridge to the…
Continue readingAnother day of working at home proved to be a productive one, building some new pages whilst lounging on the sofa in front of the Christmas tree and the (pretend) fire. By starting when I would normally begin my journey…
Continue reading08:45 is working from home and waiting for a plumber to restore heat and water to my life. I feel like the episode of Edwardian Farm we watched… # 10:24 Yay! Plumber’s arrived, in a festive hat… # 11:53 has…
Continue reading~ I am so, so lucky that my job enables me, and the bosses permit me, to work from home as I had to stay home today for the plumber to fix our heating situation. We were actually pretty toasty…
Continue reading11:26 Brilliant! The not so nice side to snow. Defunct boiler… 🙁 # 15:06 just has to wait until 8-10 tomorrow morning to hopefully be sorted out with heat and water. Fingers crossed everybody… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingSlept well last night and got up to a beautiful day with a garden laden thick with snow. Next door gazebo has collapsed – nice! I was really looking forward to going out for a nice walk in the snow…
Continue reading09:35 is both sad not to be playing Christmas carols today, but relieved that I don’t have to let anyone down… # 16:06 has just been for a snowy walk around OX26 in about 8 inches of the stuff… #uksnow…
Continue readingWe got up early (for a Saturday) today to go and play Christmas carols at Millets Farm with Abingdon Concert Band. Over breakfast the snow started coming down, finely but steadily. An hour later and there was a few centimetres…
Continue readingWe’ve actually had the tree up two weeks but I’ve been meaning to post pictures for a while now, especially as this year, our mantlepiece is looking all the more special and perfect, thanks to the 1920s fireplace we got…
Continue reading11:43 is waiting for the total whiteout of snow to arrive from Bicester… #localweatherforecast # 12:02 can report the arrival of snow to OX3 #uksnow # 12:54 is looking out at a winter wonderland whiteout again, yay! OX3 #uksnow #…
Continue reading22:15 has finished my Christmas cards. Next stop, mince pies… 🙂 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading~ I left work to the 1980s-style computer game, space effect of driving through snow. Snow! Sadly it wasn’t settling, but snow none the less! ~ Marzipanned the Christmas cake tonight. Okay a little bit late, but it will be…
Continue reading10:31 looks to a future house of illustration: Quentin Blake on the art of illustration bbc.in/hOfY7Y via @bbcnews # 20:56 is a quarter of my way through my Christmas cards… # 22:27 has finished about half the Christmas cards, including…
Continue reading~ I’ve been so, so tired this week. I haven’t had a proper lie in for ages, and I’m beginning to run on empty. I need to recharge my batteries. It’s going to have to be Saturday night/Sunday morning. ~…
Continue reading16:12 is looking at a world mapped out by facebook friends… www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723 # 16:39 has felt so, so tired all day… # 21:00 is trying to finish my Christmas letter; is trying to do something productive with this day before…
Continue readingAfter the gloriously epic year that was 2009, it has been a quieter 2010 for us in the shire, but none the less enjoyable for all of that. After three years of uncertain change things have settled down. I continue…
Continue reading~ It was Emma’s birthday today. I got up earlier than usual and made Emma a proper breakfast laid up to the table with her cards and a few presents, and we had a nice relaxing start to the day…
Continue reading23:02 is looking at the status bar and I’m guessing its about 30% there… #waitingforuploads # 00:24 has ordered the ‘unofficial’ wedding album. Now I can concentrate on those Christmas cards… # 09:00 needs to ice two cakes and marzipan…
Continue reading~ Got up early today, especially to have time to ice two birthday cakes and marzipan the Christmas cake, and then had more time than I thought because, having successful iced the two birthday cakes I remembered, after looking for…
Continue reading~ Emma, aka , has been spending the day with her Dad, and so I have been left home alone with a couple of projects to occupy me. The first of which was to sort out something that is more…
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