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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Continue readingFinally! I was beginning to think that I wasnât going to get another one, but yes, yes I have. I have an interview. Weirdly though, I felt sure it wasnât to be in this case as the closing date was…
Continue readingIt never ceases to amuse me how fast cats can run in from the garden as soon as the faintest rustle of food is heard…
Continue readingSo Iâm standing in the rain under a broken umbrella waiting for the bus, and all around me everyone else has very nice, not broken, umbrellas. I guess nowâs not the right time to try and sell a functionally deficient…
Continue readingI am officially tired. Absolutely shattered. The new door to the garage is up and in place with the new lock. Weâve also planted a second lot of vegetables – I hope itâs not too late – and a delicious…
Continue readingIâve had a few weekâs now when Iâve been doing the cleaning during sunny weather, and Iâve been fast and perky and its gone really quickly. Today however it is cold and wet outside, and the morning is dragging and…
Continue readingFurther to this morning discovery that I was locked out of the indoor-access to the garage, both Emma and I have fiddled and tweaked and coerced the lock to get it open. We’ve tried WD40, we’ve tried brute force, we’ve…
Continue readingI don’t think that I ever imagined that I would have anything in common with David Cameron. It seems I do. During the summer of 2006, I car-shared to and from work with then-neighbour Caroline. The conversations we had ranged…
Continue readingThe increasingly dodgy lock on the internal garage door got to the impossible side of dodgy this morning. All I wanted is my a carton of orange juice and some birdseed (note: actual birdseed, not a metaphor for muesli) and…
Continue readingWiggy is home. Em and I went to visit her at her holiday retreat out on the Northampton road, and we decided to try bringing her home. If it doesn’t work out, she can always go back. So Wigs, if…
Continue readingI’d forgotten what it is like to receive mail addressed to yourself in your own hand on the doormat. I knew exactly what the letter was going to say, even before I opened it. Sadly as regards The End of…
Continue readingI’m back in the basement, the dungeon, the morgue. Okay, technically speaking its not actually any of those things, but it is unearthly quiet, it is at the back end of the building, and although its not technically in the…
Continue readingIt being an unexpected Monday off for Emma, we were just getting ready to go and visit Sue and Tilly for the day, when I got a call from the agency. OUP had been on the phone to them, desperate…
Continue readingFriday 24 July at 20:29 ⢠There I was, innocently making the tonight’s dinner, and Emma was in the lounge messing around on Facebook, and then suddenly she’s telling me that I have a new friend; someone very close to…
Continue readingThere is a time when events become beyond a joke. When one has to go out and drag Bella out of a bush for the fourth time in two months, is such a time! When do they stop being naughty…
Continue readingThursday 23 July at 13:27 ⢠Further to my earlier post, it feels good to be bookbinding again. Not that this quite like any other. Having assembled into order all the sections and worked out just how I am going…
Continue readingI’ve sat down to face a stack of paper, and to assemble it into some kind of book. Of course this is to be not just any book but a limited edition 74 page book containing the entire wedding playlist…
Continue readingThe line of bureaucracy doesn’t get any more exciting. My bi-weekly sign-on was uneventful, and the officials of the jobsworth centre were thoroughly uninterested by my news of my impending work. Ho-humm, at least for the moment they’ll continue to…
Continue readingWiggy has gone on holidays. Ever since we got the two new chickens she’s been a rotten old bully to poor Henny-penny, so this evening Auntie Debbie from the vets came and collected her, taking her home with her to…
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