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 more1. What was the first thing you ever wrote? A play for my toy theatre. Simply entitled Rome, it was of quite simply epic proportions and included the infamous first line: âSir! Sir! The Gothâs are invading!â 2. What’s your…
Continue reading~ Emma’s best friend, Caroline and her children came to visit us on their way back up north. It was nice to see them and they got to meet the chickens. Sadly they weren’t here for very long but we…
Continue reading~ And back to John Lewis on a Saturday – the novelty is wearing off of our Saturday trips to John Lewis – to see Nick for a final kitchen planning appointment. We review the plans and make a few…
Continue readingIt was a morning appointment but I wasn’t really expecting to go into work for the afternoon. In the end, there was no chance of me going into work, for it did make most of the day because there is…
Continue readingI thought it was another no show. They were supposed to arrive at 10:30. They didn’t. Then Emma realised that we hadn’t changed the clocks!! Buggeration… An hour later, almost right on queue, a nice couple arrived with a van…
Continue readingTonight was Lucy and David’s Halloween party. A picture says it all, really…
Continue readingGgrrrrr!!!! I simply donât believe it! You want to know something that is quite simply unbelieveable? No, actually, it’s completely believable and completely expected for the bl**dy British Bl**dy Heart F***nig Foundation to have lied, lied, and thrice lied over…
Continue readingEver since last Friday, and the failure to have my three-piece suite and double bed collected, the garage has been an interesting place to navigate with us having to go out he front door, and in through the garage doors…
Continue readingTuesdayâs Bicester Chicken News is quite distressing. Em stayed home with a migraine today, and in the afternoon went out to say hello to the chickens, and they escaped the arc into the garden! Now, you canât chase chickens, and…
Continue readingIâve never had a new kitchen before. Iâve never planned a kitchen before. So I have been very excited about the possibility of having a kitchen â possibly by Christmas. After the disappointment of the way-too-expensive quotation on Saturday (which…
Continue readingPart of my job is to update death dates to the Oxford Reference Online website. Just occasionally I arrive upon someone whom I know of. Like now, when, turning over the pages of corrections to The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century…
Continue readingYesterday was threatening. Today, the rain and the wind and dark swept in. I don’t think it has got light all day. Umm… I bussed it to work today it was so bleak and foreboding and dark and wet. Now…
Continue readingEmma’s Mum and Dad have been on holiday up in The Lakes (and latterly) in Snowdonia for the past week, and they haven’t yet seen us in our new house. So on their way home we get our second lot…
Continue readingAfter the what has felt like two or more months of weekends filled with moving-related activities, today we have got to enjoy a proper Sunday. After yesterday’s to-ing and fro-ing on the M40, we got up leisurely and then went…
Continue reading~ As it turned out William stayed away overnight with Mr Pink in Solihull yesterday, having a pretty major surgery done on his leg. So this morning was down to dashing out to Tesco to do the week’s shop and…
Continue readingFriday 17 October In the original plan, I was supposed to have been at work today and Emma was to wait in for the John Lewis men to deliver our new Indiana three-piece suite. That was in the original plan….
Continue readingTonight was the scene of our first dinner party, and the guests: Helen and Nick. I had bought a joint of beef from the nice butchers in Launton yesterday, and today we cooked. It was absolutely delicious, although in a…
Continue readingEarly this morning, after a quick, pre-breakfast dash to Tescos in Buckingham, and a week after one of my dreams was fulfilled, one of Emma’s became a reality too… Our first two chickens arrived. Amanda brought them over in the…
Continue readingThis morning, Ronnie came up for a cuddle and we noticed that he was a bit wet; a bit weird but we didnât think much of it until a bit later when upon drawing the curtains we realised that the…
Continue readingToday I went and bought more brackets to put up my oak shelves from the old house up in my study. Putting them up was straight forward enough, or at least it was once I had realised that racking is…
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