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 moreWe have retreated from our morning out in the sun, to shelter inside our home. I *want* to be out in the garden but there’s no shade out there and its just too damn hot in the sun, I just…
Continue readingWhen Em and I joined the RSPB at the far off Glenborrowdale Natural History Centre, we discovered that we had a bird reserve right on our doorstep. If truth be told I knew that there was ‘something’ in the Otmoor…
Continue readingI’ve finally managed to get my daft laptop playing through the LCD TV! Umm, I think I have anyway. Maybe I’ve spoken too soon?!
Continue readingWhen even former Booker and Nobel Prize winning authors are turned down (if with alternative names) for publication with the infamous, and pretty much standard, reply from major London literary agencies; âHaving considered your material, we do not feel, we…
Continue readingI’ve just had an interview for rolling 2 month contract scarilly close to my old Cowley stomping ground – like spitting distance close. For the first time ever I was actually a few minutes late for the interview. I had…
Continue readingI know it’s late, but I’ve just finished up making batch 2 of elderflower sorbet. This morning I headed out early for a walk over to Bure Park in a hunt for elderflower. I found loads, and filled a bagful,…
Continue readingToday was the day for my annual pilgrimage into Oxford to pay visitations to the line of beauocracy for my pound of flesh (or 60-something pounds a week). In an effort to make the effort of getting into Oxford a…
Continue readingIn the morning I got stuck into painting some more of the garage – by degrees I will get there – before a bit more Wimbledon over lunch, and through the afternoon. It’s awkward though, before the wedding I coped…
Continue readingI begun the day, whilst it was still cool(ish), and planted the remainder of the weekend plants. The garden is really transformed now with plants now in the gravel between the ‘paths’ through the garden. I finished up just in…
Continue readingTonight’s meal – a barbeque – was a bit later than originally intended. I had had a productively and pleasingly busy day, first painting some of the garage (after an aborted quest to find a mallet and a need to…
Continue readingOf our wedding gifts we had £80 of gardening vouchers and some money towards our honeymoon. One of the things that we did buy on honeymoon was a print of the loch on which we stayed in Scotland from an…
Continue reading09:49:40 has photos – lots of photos – in a box in front of him… 🙂 09:50:36 …umm … 1118 photos to be precise! 13:38:44 likes it so much when people don’t call you when they do (not) 13:39:38 likes…
Continue reading09:49:40 has photos – lots of photos – in a box in front of him… 🙂 09:50:36 …umm … 1118 photos to be precise! 13:38:44 likes it so much when people don’t call you when they do (not) 13:39:38 likes…
Continue readingI’m not a big fan of telephone interviews at the best of times. I’m even less a fan of late telephone interviews. Today’s was scheduled for 2.30pm and I was sitting, waiting with both the landline and the mobile waiting….
Continue readingJust had a phone call from the University of Buckingham. I’m on the longlist for their IT Support Officer role and they would like to conduct a telephone interview with me tomorrow at 2.30pm. I declared my mild aspergers to…
Continue readingI like a good thunderstorm; the more dramatic the better. I was watching one approach us this morning, big and black and looming, but it went by to the north of me. Another one went past to the south around…
Continue readingLast night wasn’t a good night for me. I woke up at 2 o’clock with aches and pains and feeling a bit sick. I did manage to doze a little bit in the morning, but when I got up for…
Continue readingAfter the busy day of getting house and garden sorted yesterday, today was in some respects quiet, and in some, still packed. We went for a nice, relaxing walk down by the canal in the morning, but it turned out…
Continue readingWe’ve just had our second BBQ of the year in our garden. This has been following a nice day of pleasant busy-ness. We gave the house a good clean in the morning, had a nice lunch (sadly not in the…
Continue readingWe like Chirs Packham. He’s a wildlife geek but he’s great. He’s just the right kind of balance between knowledgeable scientis and personable personality. I’m not about to knock Bill Oddie ‘cos I do like him, but I do think…
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