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 moreI think what the Royal Society are trying to do, is circumvent global warming skeptics from coming out with the argument, ‘I’ve heard that we can do this and this and this to correct changes in the climate, why haven’’t…
Continue readingProfessor Bryan Hoskins put it very nicely on this morning’s Today programme: it may be possible to treat a help a fat man with pills, but its best to do try and help him with his diet and exercise regime…
Continue readingThere are certain books, for which the publication of them, is an event. I’m just hoping that Diana Wynne Jones’s new book, Enchanted Glass is every bit as good as her last, House Of Many Ways, and not one of…
Continue reading~ Spent more time than I would have liked crawling around in a bush by the Bicester ringroad trying (and failing) to get Bella out from beneath it. ~ Made 12lbs of blackberry jam… ~ Harvested 1½ lbs of crab…
Continue readingWe have thrice the layers in the Bicester Chicken department of ShepFood Ltd… Today, Solveig, lay her first egg – it was smeared in blood, so ouch, that first lay must hurt – and brown in colour. So now we…
Continue readingIt doesn’t seem like yesterday that we headed off down to the New Forest (with Grannie on board) for a weekend in the New Forest; it seems like much longer. We’ve had such a lovely time, arriving in time for…
Continue readingRandomly, I’ve just noticed that I’ve been *followed* on twitter by a user called geocaching101 which is weird and ever-so-slightly random. Yes, I know what geocaching is but I’ve made no mention of it anywhere on twitter. What is really…
Continue readingMy lunchtime routine is settling down nicely. I have a bit of a read whilst I eat my lunch, and then write a bit more to Mr Tumnal afterwards. I don’t get a lot written – maybe a couple of…
Continue readingSo it’s GCSE results day. Following on the heals of A-Level results day and Scottish Highers, once again Thursdays in August follow a similar and predictable pattern. Quite apart from the fact that for the current crop of students it…
Continue readingI’m not a cricket fan, but I do find it amusing that @jane‘s twitter update beats the BBC’s breaking news in alerting of the fate of some ashes. Indeed, I went straight to the BBC news pages to read more,…
Continue reading~ This morning I assembled the new run for the bunnies and hooked it up to the old rabbit hutch. It’s very smart, and sits very well on he new turf. ~ Caroline stopped by with Alex and Caitlin on…
Continue readingIt was Emma’s last weekly day off before she starts her new rota, so she spent it going to visit Greenford to visit her vet nurse friends and to collect the new additions to the Shepherd family. Since she was…
Continue readingToday has felt a bit like the end of term. It’s deathly quiet in the office, and I had a very nice lunch out in Little Clarendon Street (surely one of the best streets in the whole of Oxford?) with…
Continue readingThomas is physically at work in Oxford, but is mentally in Louis Tumnal’s house in Wren Hoe (a university town on the edge of the Cotswolds)…
Continue readingIt seems that little Bella Shepherd enjoys going off and exploring bushes but then once she goes so far, can’t remember how to get home. For the fifth time since May, I have had to go out and coax her…
Continue readingAs I get myself deeper into writing my new novel, I’m finding myself increasingly in the head of Louis Tumnal, who has lots of people in his head and is also the invention of a fictional person who is also…
Continue readingEver since we released our herbs (and particularly mine) from there incarceration in pots they have romped away in the herb garden. I have now harvested a load, and hung them up to dry in the kitchen. It looks and…
Continue readingHaving come by the recipe for sundried tomato foccacia bread, and as of this evening, all the ingredients (namely the sundried tomatos!), tonight I made some. Whilst the breadmaker took most the strain, there was a certain amount of kneeding…
Continue readingIf not on a Friday afternoon, when is it better time to have your head implode? I wish I could understand as well I want to… A physicist looks at The Time Traveler’s Wife. – By Dave Goldberg – Slate…
Continue readingI’m really enjoying writing Mr Tumnal’s story. On a scale of 1-10 of wonkiness its no. 11 and some, its so completely twisted and out there it actually makes sense, and love how I am referencing and acknowledging other things…
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