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 moreAfter an early morning visit to a Tesco somewhere in Bracknell, and a return home for a leisurely breakfast, Emma and I headed out for a long, leisurely walk in Burnham Beeches. With gorgeous blue skies, it was the perfect…
Continue readingSnow! Itâs hypnotic, snow in headlights as Emma and I drove in convoy through High Wycombe after dinner and budget discussions with her parents. Kind of an awkward experience, it does sound like we can have enough for the non-fussy…
Continue readingFriday 11 January 2008 10:55 “If you try and sell your house, estate agents will tell you to get rid of the books, they are viewed as tired and middle aged,” says Prof Sutherland. I canât imagine ever living in…
Continue reading1. Got home this evening and switched on the laptop. Hard disc error: no bootable drives. I try repeatedly, on and off, on and off. Eventually leave it and sort out Bella and Arthurâs feeding for the weekend with Kathy…
Continue readingAnd about time too! Yes, I know it seems like an unpopular thing to say, but the truth is, if we are stand any chance of stopping the planet rise in temperature by the crucial 2 degrees (as it is,…
Continue readingOkay, so I blew it. Romantic gesture, yes, but practicality no. Despite measuring the finger I got the ring completely and utterly the wrong size. Emma took it in to the jewellers in Amersham today to see if can be…
Continue reading1. Upon waking this morning, all I could hear was the howling gale. A day for the bus, me thinks. 2. Actually managed to be reasonably productive today at work. And I got some work done on the novel. 3….
Continue readingMore talk about weddings. Is this what its going to be like for the next 18 months? A nice sunny day today, and we went for a walk in Stowe Landscape Gardens. I didnât realise but Iâve never been there…
Continue readingToday I managed to not fall into the age-old Saturday trap of not getting up, though later than a weekday, early enough to not waste the morning. By the time I did get up, I found that the postie had…
Continue readingOh, bugger, that was quick. I attended an interview this morning for a Web Designer/Developer position at a company in Summertown, Oxford. I thought it looked quite interesting â working on creating some kind social networking site for businesses wanting…
Continue readingHmph! After my recent posting activity, I have to say that I’m surprised by the number of comments posted to these pages?! Currently I’m gearing up for another interview tomorrow morning. This time a web design job in the Summertown…
Continue reading1. The holiday’s over. It’s back to work in the morgue. And to add frustration to boredom, the damn computer took the best part of an hour to sort itself out so that I could actually open more than one…
Continue readingOn the 31 December 2006 Emma made a pact with her sister Helen and Helen’s boyfriend Nicholas, that the next year, they would be there; they would go up to London too to see the fireworks. In the end Helen…
Continue reading365 days ago, I declared that I would read more. The difficulty is, that when you are not certain exactly how much you have read previously, its hard to keep a track of whether I am reading more. To this…
Continue readingAnother day of exploring new places. After a leisurely breakfast – Emma cooked us a very good fry-up, we went for a walk as the sun broke through. We were going to go to Burnham Beeches, but decided to go…
Continue readingWaking in my own bed, in my own house, after coming back home from Christmas at my parentsâ, I had to remind myself that itâs still December and that this is a pit stop in my holiday. I have a…
Continue reading1. We had a really nice walk with Barney this morning; down to Ogdens, over to Hasley Wood and back along the Latchmoor. Half way round though, as the wind began to blow in ever more stiffly, something spooked the…
Continue reading…it seems that when in my pocket, my mobile phone – a Motorola V3i – is at precisely the same height as the granit work top in the kitchen, and thus I have mashed my third front glass in as…
Continue readingTo be precise, the sloe gin was bottled last weekend – which, ermm, does actually feel (nicely) like way more than a week away now, but today I got round to designing some nice new, swish labels for this years,…
Continue readingFor the first time in my life I spent Boxing Day away from the nuclear family, or at least my nuclear family. I was up and away by 9 o’clock, with a small overnight bag and (I thought) one more…
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