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.
Read more
How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?
Read more10:28 is looking forward to going off and finding some snowdrops! 🙂 and starlings roosting tomorrow 🙂 # 18:32 is humbled. Very, very humbled. # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue reading11:05 is amused that ‘Google’ wasn’t in Google’s gmail default dictionary. Do they really want us goggling?!! 😉 # 14:04 : ‘Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.’…
Continue reading20:50 has just looked out the window. When did it go from big, wet rain to fluffy snow that’s settling? # 22:22 is enjoying his imaginative world… shepline.livejournal.com/729447.html # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue readingHave you ever been walking, cycling, or driving around town wishing that they would do something awesome there, or regretting that that row of streets was ever demolished? Have you ever had ambitious plans that would be so utterly fantastic…
Continue reading11:19 is trying to ShareIt. Who’da thought, sharing was so complicated. Particularly if you want to share with style and simplicity… # 15:11 Law – Departments – Social Sciences and Law – Oxford Brookes University shar.es/m1O5B via @sharethis # 15:11…
Continue reading10:43 has just discovered that someone has been messing with my site. Damn and curse them…! # 11:03 is fuming. Ggrrr… we give you access so that you can make small changes not to rip things apart… # 11:14 :…
Continue reading08:43 spent the morning commute being reminded about the power of radio. So, so powerful. # 11:07 has just seen that even students get Tesco online deliveries these days? No more cycling down to peruse the shelves of KwikSave… #…
Continue reading20:04 Yum! Mushroom rissotto followed by Gu chocolate pots… Happy Valentines, Emma 🙂 Xxx # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue reading12:54 has just heard Friday’s #Archers – oh my, so, so powerfully simple. RIP Phil. # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue reading14:40 RT There’s speaking your mind, and there’s speaking your mind… @doctorow Now THIS is a legislative outburst! tinyurl.com/ydwxuxd # 21:33 has seen heaven and would love to go… www.mallinson.co.uk/ # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue reading16:00 : NT open their doors for free, for everyone, on 20 and 21 March. Get your voucher now! bit.ly/9sFkVU via @nationaltrust # 16:56 : âGrow your ownâ energy to help the NT move away from oil and cut fossil…
Continue reading10:46 is wondering why, when it does kind of work, it doesn’t work properly. Installation instructions… fail! # 12:44 saw a sunny, springtime morning, and is now looking out on hail that is settling! # Bleated on behalf of Thomas…
Continue reading10:53 is trying to code webpages. Easy, you’d think? But in Arabic…? # 10:54 : this reminds me when they gave the maths-heavy MNR to me, an arts graduate, to work on… # 10:55 is seeing squiggles and lines all…
Continue reading08:36 is waiting for the AA man on a Monday morning. Thankfully the car is still on the drive and I’m still at home… # 10:15 is waiting for another AA man, this time with a big lorry to take…
Continue reading11:48 twitpic.com/11vmd9 – beneath the real Wren Hoe, a nowhere land… #MrTumnal #Oxford # 17:32 twitpic.com/11x1af – trams from the #Ashmolean to #nowhere; the way to travel in Wren Hoe… #MrTumnal #Oxford # 20:14 thinks that Emma was just intimating…
Continue readingIn recent week’s I’ve now had two people read the first slice of Mr Tumnal. And both Jane and Emma have loved it. Which is really encouraging for me as I write it, and enjoy it, and find myself living…
Continue reading23:58 twitpic.com/11irm1 – Thanks. Next i just need to do some Oxford/Budapest photoshop mashups… # 00:06 …so, Avatar? Incredible, yes. Awesome, too. But flawed. Why, James Cameron do you have to push it just that bit too far? # 18:19…
Continue reading09:47 : these guys are amazing. Well worth supporting… www.cancerdogs.co.uk/ /via @EmmaEShepherd # 16:16 : everything you ever wanted to know about the book but were too afraid to ask; one for bibliophiles & librarians tinyurl.com/ylb2el3 # 17:49 asks you…
Continue reading08:45 twitpic.com/11b2uc – : an explanation of Hell by a Chemistry student… /via @nickyanderton # 08:49 gave myself far too much time to get to Wheatley down the back roads. The grey, concrete campus isn’t improved by the grey rain……
Continue reading23:09 is thinking that it’s kinda cool that Emma has chosen to take Mr Tumnal to bed to read like any normal novel. # 12:11 : use twitter to build up a picture of spring arriving across UK. Tweet your…
Continue reading
