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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Read moreEmma has just arrived. 🙂 I wasn’t expecting her until the concert tomorrow night, but whilst on the bus back from Oxford I had a text message. She’s been really missing me. By the time I had driven back home…
Continue readingI’ve just heard my Gran talk! An aside to this should be that I only have one Granpa left, so to hear my Gran talk is somewhat surprising. I’m listening to my mp3 player, and this morning whilst scrolling through…
Continue readingHave just watched the first part of Delia’s new, self-titled, cookery series focussing on how to cheat at cookery, because a bit of cheating in our busy live is actually go. It was interesting, and recipes scrummy, but I did…
Continue reading1. Today has been a day so much better than we were expecting. With it fresh and bright and sunny we got up and did a last bit of cleaning to ‘arrange’ the house for its 11.30 viewing and then…
Continue readingThere was a time when, despite my good intentions (and desires to fill acres of time with productive novel writing), I would fritter away Saturday’s with too-slow-a-getting-upping and general faffing. Not anymore. Not since almost a year ago. And its…
Continue readingAll I can say is, it had better rain this afternoon â say between 4 and 5 o’clock! I say this, not because I want it to rain but because I don’t want my feelings of being tricked by the…
Continue readingDriving round into the end of my little cul-de-sac, my gaze is struck by the large sign in my back garden. The For Sale sign has appeared (and yes, curious as it may be to have it in the back…
Continue readingI’ve just met the man – Maurice – who found and returned my notebook. Apparently he found it on the shelves just round the corner (?!!), realised its importance, looked inside it and saw my name and then found out…
Continue readingIt’s warm today, and I feel a bit stuffy and sticky in my sweater. Yesterday I had a thinner shirt on, which is weird because yesterday it was freezing. It’s all the wrong way out.
Continue readingAll things considered, I slept surprisingly well last night. My journey to work though, was preoccupied by thoughts of where and whether I might find my writing notebook – not to exaggerate, my life – and whether someone might have…
Continue readingLike this one? Itâs a nice house. Iâve been very happy there…
Continue readingIâve lost my small Moleskine notebook and my insides are doing summersaults of queasiness inside of me. I remember picking it up and putting it in my fleece pocket to go to lunch, with my novel to read and the…
Continue readingIt’s a beautiful day out there, but by heck it’s cold. It was a nice cycle ride though, into work, even if my tootsies were frozen upon arrival. And my tummy seems to be a little bit flatter â or…
Continue readingHow weird is that? I hook my phone out of my pocket to check for messages before driving off home and it rings in my hand: Anonymous Call. It’s Alexanders estate agents. They have a viewing for me. Is it…
Continue reading1. commented today that it has been almost a whole month since I last posted. If you are reading this, you will by now know that my threat of mega-spamming my friend’s friends pages has come true.† 2. I have…
Continue readingI’ve just instructed Alexanders to sell my house. They are going to pop out during the day and take pictures outside in the nice sunny weather and then come back this evening to measure up and take photos downstairs. I…
Continue readingWhat a gorgeously sunny (if bloomin’ cold) late-winter/early-spring morning. Just before (possibly) ruining it with a hot cross bun and jam to follow my breakfast of fruit juice and cereal, I leapt on the scales, and yay! wavering around the…
Continue readingUpon returning from Wisley I fixed my puncture* – the first on my new bike, the bike that is approaching its first birthday† – and then we went out for a cycle ride around the block. By ‘block’ I mean…
Continue reading/pun Today, Emma and I took a trip to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley to see the Spring flowers, and it was lovely. Gloriously sunny, if a bit on the windy side, we checked out the vegetable gardens,…
Continue readingSo its finally come; the leap day of the leap year. I don’t usually listen too carefully to Thought for the Day in the mornings (usually, a sensible point in the first half is ruined by the religious bit in…
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