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 moreWith a burst of enthusiasm and a flame of inspiration this week I am another chapter down in Mr Tumnal’s curious story. In this latest chapter we visit the childhood life of Louis, and see how he and Amanda came…
Continue reading23:06 has written five good pages. This is good, very good… 🙂 # 06:54 wonders what John Humphries is doing at 9am. He seems to have it on the brain everytime he does a time check #Today # 09:14 twitpic.com/y3ogp…
Continue reading09:54 RT This is important! @bbcautumnwatch @MarkAvery Today’s Guardian has leader ‘In praise of feeding birds in winter’ bit.ly/6MozrA # 12:09 is improving the state of things # 15:01 is making radical and fundamental changes. Fun, isn’t it? 🙂 #…
Continue reading09:07 has slithered and slided round Bicester and come back to work from home again today… # 12:07 has discovered that the youth of today have bloody good aim and throwing ability. It’s kids who can throw snowballs 40 ft…
Continue reading11:19 has a love/hate relationship with Microsoft Outlook… # 11:36 is nervously making major architectural changes to the left hand navigation. Did I say that I was nervous…? Broken links? It’ll be fine… # 12:34 : can you smell my…
Continue readingToday’s commute to work was so and deadly, if beautiful. I always knew I would have to take it carefully, but I was expecting somewhat less snow on the major backgrounds than I actually got. In places I trundled along…
Continue reading17:19 has finished work. A bit of a longer day than usual, but at least I didn’t have to content with the morning and evening commute! 🙂 # 19:16 is creating a poster # 20:24 wonders why the Monday night…
Continue readingI’ve had a very nice, productive day – at work. That is to say, after weighing up the various factors, including Emma’s bronchitis and potential need for my caring duties, and the icy-snowy weather, and the fact that I really…
Continue reading18:24 has just put the bunnies to bed. It’s snowing again… # 20:33 is scared witless. Some bugger has just managed to hit our patio door with a couple of snowballs. Must have been catapults… # 22:25 would like to…
Continue reading09:53 is sizing up the icicle on the house from a photographic perspective! 🙂 # 13:14 is wondering what food shortage? Regular Ocado order just been; no subs or missing items. Appear to have over ordered on the celery though…
Continue reading15:23 is getting used to having two computers in one, slowly… # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by LoudTwitter
Continue reading13:06 would like to make it perfectly clear that I am not tired of snow, the snow is fine; its just The Media and their insessant reporting of it! # 13:25 RT It’s Snowpuss! @EmmaEShepherd twitpic.com/x1pdx # 14:32 twitpic.com/x1xjs –…
Continue reading23:02 : four inches, and going stronger than ever… 🙂 # 08:02 has measured the snow. Eight inches here… # 09:30 has taken remote control of my work computer. I’m going nowhere. 🙂 # 11:45 has just got back from…
Continue reading~ Woke up to a good half foot of snow laid deep and crisp and even all around. Our drug overlord neighbours had some difficulty driving through the snow and got stuck, and Emma persuaded me to go out and…
Continue reading11:49 RT 40cm?!! That’s a foot… @106jackfm OMGG Met Office now says a ‘high risk’ of VERY heavy snowfall for Oxon. UP TO 40CM possible tonight # 15:16 liked collaboratively building the Wedding Playlist of 2009; can I get the…
Continue readingIt’s kind of ironic that when we finally get snow of any note, the rest of the country appears to have got tired of the white stuff and are now concerned about the danger it brings and how much longer…
Continue reading09:08 twitpic.com/wmfn9 – You have received a new message # 09:11 twitpic.com/wmfut – You have received a new message # 09:12 twitpic.com/wmfwu – You have received a new message # 09:15 twitpic.com/wmg4g – You have received a new message #…
Continue readingA damn cold night; a damn cold morning followed it. The morning commute was a joy; a beauty; a complete winter wonderland of white beauty. I felt compelled to do more than just wish that I had stopped to take…
Continue reading23:18 wonders why echofon is highlighting all my links in red? Most annoying… # 10:19 is shameless in my book adding. I now have 1,265 collections of beautiful words in the house… 🙂 # Bleated on behalf of Thomas by…
Continue readingNow I’m sure that I when I looked at the weather forecast online yesterday evening it was for rain today… so I was very pleased to wake to the most gorgeous of, if freezing, winter days. We had a nice…
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