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

09:46:31: is looking forward to going off in search of autumn colour today… #autumn #leaves 20:39:01: has just found my dream house. Excuse me whilst I hyperventilate over that library… http://t.co/0PRA6M9 …just need £750k now! Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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The Time Was When

09:32:40: got all emotional when watching @BBCBreakfast this morning and the item about the @GrandPier reopening came on. Good luck to them! 🙂 18:49:43: has reached the weekend… Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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Wren

Wren Originally uploaded by Inzievar on 12 Oct ’10, 10.58am BST PST. Harder to catch than a moving jet 🙂 Wish it was sharper and brighter – but no light. A beautiful picture of a Wren from the BBC Autumnwatch…

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The Time Was When

09:10:25: asks if the cuts fair? http://bit.ly/a1T9UD via @krishgm #spendingreview 13:42:10: : Cameron and Osborne will be remembered as the Scrooge and Marley of our age via @Kevin_McCloud 13:50:32: : sobering and depressing… @RealDMitchell I don’t think many people read…

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09:47:02: is reading about the HTML5 and Flash debate… http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2flsxrri7hv19z0mhre8b8 #flashvideo #portabledevices 12:03:19: is wondering what kind of slash and burn approach our Government are proposing for our country? #spendingreview 20:41:43: Like all fonts it can be overused. You just…

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22:13:03: writes about letting nothing perish; finding inspiration, using stories, and creating things… http://shepline.livejournal.com/795315.html Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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Let nothing perish

On Saturday Emma and I went to Snowshill Manor, the former home of Charles Wade, an eccentric collector of the highest order. He bought the manor house on the side of a Cotswold hill and filled it with his collection…

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The Time Was When

13:56:33: : new Sizewell power station gets green light http://t.co/YlwXQez via Lowestoft Journal #carbonfreefuture 14:06:12: : decision due on Pakefield High School plans http://t.co/SwhGNnw via Lowestoft Journal 16:55:22: : formula to make an album name. Take your top shopping list…

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19:23:12: has had an idea that might, just possibly, if I’m lucky get me my lost photos from May back. Maybe… 21:40:44: found reference to Oxfordshire 2010 photos but could not open them. In other news, I’m into previously uncharted…

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Excerpt from an as yet unplanned work

Hanna stood on the edge of the stage. Slowly she lowered the microphone to her side, listening to the last bars of the songs die away as the lights swooped and fell across the stage, and faded into darkness. Out…

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21:27:16: Why Uffington White Horse is really a dog, says vet (From The Oxford Times): http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/191262/8447531 22:09:47: has just realised that the Gavin Maxwell book I’ve just started reading is set in the same kind of error as our wonderful…

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10:06:30: is off to the palace in December… 15:35:24: observes the shocking evidence from yellow arches: Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months… http://yhoo.it/coPH8V via @rosietratt Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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09:24:09: wonders how long it will be before Tom Hanks signs to play one of the #chileanminers in the Hollywoodisation of the story? 11:35:00: …MmnMmn, @grazedotcom Deli topped facaccia bread is sooo good. Yum! *wants more* #graze Tweets copied by…

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21:17:47: has uploaded photos from Suffolk in June. A return to old haunts for me, and a first trip to where I grew up for Emma http://bit.ly/9vOJhj Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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10:12:37: wishes that there was an easier way of reviewing 3 frames per minute of one day, dawn to dusk, times two… #makingastopmotionvideo 10:30:28: has reached midday on Saturday, stream 1… 10:58:26: thinks that we’ve been rumbled… #makingastopmotionvideo http://twitpic.com/2wo3f4 11:04:45:…

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The Time Was When

08:48:36: wishes everyone a very Happy 42 Day! (apparently 101010 in binary is 42, or so @sophbrad tells me) 12:24:30: has cleaned out the animals, processed another load of washing and made a (significant) start to (re)tidying the garage #leweekend…

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08:41:24: is quietly befuddled at how weird it is that my #lj friend @kindofpalejewel has had *exactly* the same hard drive problem as me this week… 15:09:46: likes nothing better than to share my pork pie with Blini (NOT!!!) Tweets…

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The Time Was When

20:37:54: has just reported the two threatening ‘salesmen’ who scared the living poo out of us last night to the police… 22:38:51: can’t quite believe that my dearly beloved wife just put a cat poo in front of my nose…

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The Time Was When

09:31:45: is looking forward to, on a crisp autumn day, the start of @bbc_autumnwatch – I’m going to watch it ‘as live’, a day late on Friday though! Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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