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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Heading towards conflict

After a bit of lapse in the writing stakes, and a Writing Week last week that got taken over by various bits of web designing, I had a burst of writing this week, much of which was writtnen last Monday,…

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The Time Was When

15:11:31: RT @creationtheatre: The show ends on SATURDAY. So come and enjoy an amazing show before it’s too late. Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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The Time Was When

15:09:00: is sitting in the garden with my pen and my novel, the sun is shining; its the last day of the summer holidays… 15:45:05: is concocting arguments over photographic differences for Louis and Kathryn to wrestle over in the…

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15:26:15: Of course they do. That does not mean they should Dear BBC, for the love of God ignore this poll http://bbc.in/bTL7TT (@janerawson @Glinner) 15:26:56: “There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to…

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14:15:53: has implemented google earth into the new @dhofarproject website. That’s the easy bit – now comes the sites… 15:02:08: …progress is, ermm… progress. I now have the @dhofarproject google map centred on southern Oman Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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17:20:38: thinks that it looks a bit wet out there. Definitely a good day to be doing #webdesign for @dhofarproject – cutting edge of archaeology 22:24:36: considers that at least it wasn’t actually raining for my walk twice round the…

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10:41:31: sung happy birthday down the phone to my daddy only to be asked if I’d heard of this gadget called auto-tuning… :-/ Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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10:06:52: : Shepline Creative launches a new website for the Affordable, Professional; Approachable http://gamagesaccountancy.com #websites #launches Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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11:02:09: : Aspies who can! A new global movement – join us! http://bit.ly/a8nNwu via @billgoodyear #aspergers #autism 11:40:16: : 4yrs on and I still here ‘I don’t need suppmat’ when I hear Sandi Thom’s ‘Superman’. Every Production Editor would agree……

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10:29:27: has decided to go for the free diagnosis on what kind of disk recovery I can get from my external hard drive. I want my photos… 🙁 10:40:00: My Twifficiency score is 31%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/ 10:40:57: finds that…

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The Day In Music

Its been a while since I’ve done one of these. I start the day; I plug my earphones in and set the iPod on random. At best its an eclectic mix, so skipping†, no lies, just the whole shameful truth….

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15:17:48: wonders why we can’t just enjoy the originals all the more… http://bbc.in/drDON0 #beatrixpotter #peterrabbit Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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12:55:56: thinks that cutting the hedge is fine; I don’t have a problem with the cutting… It’s the picking up all the little bits… #gardening Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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18:09:54: has just taken on a new website client, on the ever possible, budget, Design’n’Maintain option… Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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11:58:46: whilst watching last night’s Victorian Pharmacy last night, I’ve got the urge to try making a #digital #pinhole camera. #digitalpinhole 14:12:15: I scored 4 out of 7 on the BBC News Quiz http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10951255 Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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The Time Was When

07:58:59: …jailbreak in the morning now? What’s going on? At least Bella came back in for breakfast. Fap is now taped up. #awolcats 23:14:56: has just stood outside under an umbrella (to shield the streetlight) on a cloudless sky and…

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The Time Was When

09:10:25: http://twitpic.com/2di5ui – would like to know what happened to my bread?!? 10:01:07: is looking forward to this week’s meteor shower – night of 12th should be best http://bit.ly/aHUhv7 via @nationaltrust 10:03:28: hopes that this might findly silence any disbelievers…

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13:47:51: has just eaten my 5-a-day. 1x apple, 1x bannana, 1x nectarine, 2x satsumas, 4x small plums… 18:30:04: came home to find jailbreak in Spruce Drive. Cat flap in three pieces inside and out and a happy Bella (despite the…

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The Time Was When

10:24:00: wonders where all the milk has gone…? 20:40:58: RT @JeremyJHardy: How to Look Good Naked: put some clothes on. 20:43:15: RT @nickyanderton: Only Stephen Fry can say “Dirty Mr Qwerty” like that. Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

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