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 more~ Em’s birthday started with an early morning trip to Tesco (which Helen didn’t particularly enjoy), but we returned home for a leisurely breakfast and presents. Emma loved the watch I got her and she also got some other great…
Continue readingLeaving work today, I met up with Em and her sister in Blackwells and we wandered amongst the Christmas lights of Oxford and we did some festive shopping and bought traditionally over the top decorations for our first cake. Then…
Continue readingWhen at full strength there now seems to be an amazing twelve flautists in our band. This month’s concert should therefore stand as a watchword that one shouldn’t take lots of flutes for granted, for worryingly at tonight’s rehearsal there…
Continue readingIf last year wasnât full of enough change for you, then this year has continued at an epic pace. So, after the last season finale didnât leave you wanting more and with questions as where the story was going, then…
Continue reading~ It was a cold cycle into Oxford this morning but I so, so glad that I did it. I feel fresh and awake and altogether good. And yes, possibly a little cold around the edges… 🙂 ~ Today is…
Continue readingI slipped into town after work today to visit Oxford’s Registry Office and see our names up on the board… So if anyone has any objections they had best find their way to that notice in a locked corridor, up…
Continue readingâTwas a cold and frosty morn, today. Actually, it was pretty much cold and frosty all day. Even so, after Em got back from veterinary duties in the morning, we headed out for a nice walk on a slippery Brill…
Continue reading~ Dave The Kitchen Fitter came to see us yesterday evening for a site visit. With our new kitchen just one week away, whilst Em went into work, I set to dismantling the kitchen and de-tiling the kitchen. I had…
Continue readingI found this story about Suffolk coastal erosion interesting because this stretch of coast is one of my most favourite places in the country with some extremely fond memories. Itâs also the scene of my earliest distressing memories. When going…
Continue readingThanks to Jane for linking me to this review of the state of fantasy film adaptations. Itâs an interesting article, but one that leaves me in two minds. On the one hand I would like there to be more film…
Continue readingOur Christmas tree is up! Our first tree which is a fusion of Emmaâs trees and mine of recent years, is up and decorated and looking mighty special. When we thought about this before the event, I think both of…
Continue readingI donât know whether youâve seen this programme, but Wild About Your Garden is brilliant. Bloody brilliant. 🙂 Kind of like Ground Force for people who dislike decking, but love birds.
Continue readingThatâs it. They are done. We now have a stack of wedding invitations, signed, sealed and stamped and awaiting posting.
Continue readingIt doesnât feel right, to sit here at the dining room table writing out names into wedding invitations. Perhaps I should clarify, that when I say it doesnât feel right, it actually feels completely and utterly right but that itâs…
Continue readingIt doesnât seem possible that in just three weekâs time my new kitchen will be going in, and within four weekâs I shall be using it. My new oven â the five burner gas hob, and the solid oak worktops….
Continue readingWhat a warm and comforting feeling it is to go to bed in a house that smells richly of Christmas baking. Somewhere during watching the season opener to Survivors (not sure how I feel about this, it was good enough…
Continue readingAccording to tonightâs episode of The Archers today was what is known as âStir-up Sundayâ, the day when everyone is supposed to make the Christmas cake. I didnât know this at the time that I stirred up Sunday myself, but…
Continue readingSadly, I didnât quite get round to decorating (or de-blueing) the spare bedroom before their arrival, for this weekend my parents came for a weekend visit and this time they brought Barney along too. We were able to go for…
Continue readingAbingdon Concert Band had entered, for the first (and scary) time the National Concert Band Festival regional finals. Today was the day for it, and so a particularly cold and bleak and miserable November Sunday we all traipsed up to…
Continue readingAnother Saturday comes and another visitor to our new home. This time it is Sue (plus bump), bearing a housewarming present of bulbs for the new garden. Not that itâs the kind of day for Its another cold and wintery…
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