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 more17:01:14 have arrived on our private island with no roads or TV. Room with a view across the sea… 20:29:36 and Emma are watching pine martins outside their lounge windows. Simon King, eat your heart out… 🙂
Continue reading17:01:14 have arrived on our private island with no roads or TV. Room with a view across the sea… 20:29:36 and Emma are watching pine martins outside their lounge windows. Simon King, eat your heart out… 🙂
Continue reading13:33:59 have crossed the border into Scotland, and availing themselves of internet access in the hotel to check out wedding pics! 🙂 15:20:47 has just been to Peter Rabbit’s Hill Top and then had lunch in Hawkshead’s Hawkshead. Wordsworth this…
Continue reading13:33:59 have crossed the border into Scotland, and availing themselves of internet access in the hotel to check out wedding pics! 🙂 15:20:47 has just been to Peter Rabbit’s Hill Top and then had lunch in Hawkshead’s Hawkshead. Wordsworth this…
Continue readingLeaving Ambleside early-ish, we take a scenic route north-east and, pretty-much straight up, the side of a mountain. It’s fairly busy and we decide that the 1:4 road has suffered at the hands of sat-nav. At the top of the…
Continue readingIt was a dry but slightly grey morning, but over a full English breakfast the cloud burnt off and we had a nice drive south through the hills to Near Sawrey to visit Hill Top. Warned to go early we…
Continue readingWe set off a bit later than originally planned, starting off in grey skies and drizzle. By the time we reach Birmingham, the roads and the weather were clearing – we took the new M6 toll for the first time…
Continue readingToday has been a busy one, of turning around the washing and packing from wedding mode to honeymoon mode (of which we leave tomorrow…). Because we really don’t have enough to do anyway, Bella decided that it was best to…
Continue readingThe weather today has been glorious, sunny and hot. Em and I went for a ride on the narrow guage railway with a collection of littl’uns and their families. We saw the summit of Snowdon and had a fantastic time,…
Continue readingYesterday was the best day of my life, by far. This weekend has been the best weekend. At about quarter past two Phil The Photographer called upon me for pre-wedding photos. After the lowering cloud and horzontal rain of yesterday,…
Continue readingThe ghost of room five didn’t, as it happened, make a return visit to me in my wedding-eve night at the back of the house. I slept wll last night – that is until about 6 o’clock when I was…
Continue readingSleep no more. I’ve been awake now for the last hour; the last half of which I’ve been writing up my journal. I can’t sleep anymore. The bed is quite hard with only one pillow; it seems to work okay…
Continue readingIt’s been very nice having all my friends and family, and ‘new’ family, around to share my birthday with. I have got a huge amount of cards and presents, and the largest birthday meal out I’ve ever been part of….
Continue readingWeirdly, both Emma and my mum had very similar dreams last night. Em’s was that she woke up to find that there were lots of people she didn’t know staying in the house who had eaten all the breakfast and…
Continue reading08:22:33 is packed and ready for the off. Possibly my last post here as a singleton! 🙂 09:23:37 @janerawson We certainly shall! 🙂 Don’t forget to come up past Shrewsbury and then the A5 – much quicker! 10:01:22 is all…
Continue reading08:22:33 is packed and ready for the off. Possibly my last post here as a singleton! 🙂 09:23:37 @janerawson We certainly shall! 🙂 Don’t forget to come up past Shrewsbury and then the A5 – much quicker! 10:01:22 is all…
Continue readingIt was nice to be first to arrrive at Craflwyn. With Emma driving up the drive ahead of me and my Dad bringing up the rear we arrived in convoy and settled into our home for the long weekend. One…
Continue readingI’ve been having a little it of a panic last night because I still seemed to have so much to do and a speech to write. This morning we got up early and got our cars largely packed leaving us…
Continue readingWell, after a bit of a panic and a flap last night we seem to be mostly packed and ready for the off. Just have to await the arrival of The Two Grannies and for my Mum and Dad to…
Continue reading09:42:23 @ratsinabag them books be double-parked 09:46:40 three days and counting… 🙂 20:34:35 is packing, packing, packing 20:34:47 is so much stuff… 20:35:24 is packing, packing, packing, so, so, so much stuff…
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