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~ According to the Chinese the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year is supposed to represent prosperity and wealth. ~ On the eighth day of the eighth month and the eighth year I finish revising Part…
Continue reading1. I had a touch of The GrumpsTM this morning. I’m really not sure why. I think its because I knew that I would be missing Emma. It was her day off today, and although she’d already worked more hours…
Continue readingThe process of copying all my data off my computer was a careful and methodical one. Intriguing to, as for a hard disk that was 60GB with available capacity of c.56GB and 16GB free, I ended up with 80GB of…
Continue readingI think I have just made a very audible whoop of joy, as like a phoenix, and after I had given up all hope of seeing my data again, a nice program called GetDataBack brought up a representation of the…
Continue readingSpinRite seemed to do âsomethingâ â it has proved at least that my data is still there on the desk. Just inaccessible. So, leaving my computer doing another round of error checking and correction, we headed out in the afternoon…
Continue readingMy brother found a program on the web that promises to recover data by approaching blocks from all different angles and distances and working out what should be there. I watched the promotional videos and invested 80 dollars of hope…
Continue readingHopes of reviving my sick computer long enough to rescue data from it are failing fast. My Windows XP discs arrived from Dell today, but in attempting to repair it, it failed. Obviously the corrupt sector of my hard drive…
Continue readingOkay, so I wonât be getting my car back from its service today. Apparently it needs some little oxygen censor. This is a something that is probably about the size of my finger nail but will cost me an arm…
Continue readingThis time round I decided to take my car in for its service and MOT the night before, and so I rolled up at The Holt to collect my loan car. They said it had a quarter of a tank…
Continue readingEm and I had a nice walk at Stowe today before retreating home for lunch and shelter from the hot and sunny weather. It has been too hot to do anything much outside and so I have been engaging with…
Continue readingI didn’t think that my car’s silencer should have gone quite yet, after all it was only replaced a year ago at its last service. And it hadn’t. The silencer was working perfectly. It’s just that the exhaust pipe wasn’t…
Continue readingThe advantage of nice weather is that when driving home in the afternoon sun, you can slide down the windows, and roll back the sunroof. The downside to this is that you can hear the alarmingly embarrassing noise coming from…
Continue readingNews that the sequels to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights may not now be made disturbs me somewhat. Granted, they messed around with the story and changed the ending (although reports have it that the ending was to be moved the…
Continue readingI’d heard that it was a bad adaptation of a classic book, but being one of my favourite stories of all time I was intrigued enough to still want to see the film version of The Dark Is Rising. That,…
Continue reading1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” 2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a personal nature. 3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. 4. You will include this and an…
Continue readingOr at least, I think it was a Chaffinch. It certainly wasn’t a Starling, or a Blue/Great Tit, and it looked too big to be a Sparrow. Em is the one who is good with birds, and I’m just a…
Continue readingHow do I manage to get things so wrong? Yesterday was hot, really hot, and I had socks and trainers and everything on. Today, I go in to work with linen trousers and sandals and it ends up being the…
Continue readingOur mortgage is approved! 😀 Itâs tight, we are lucky that we can put up a 25% deposit to get the repayment rate we can afford but weâve done it. Now, how long it going to take for the sale…
Continue readingOne of the nice (of many) things about last weekâs (all too soon over) holiday was that it coincided with Wimbledon, and so that, for the first time in years I had the opportunity of watching live tennis from the…
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