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 moreDo you ever get those years, where, quite out of nowhere they take the most unexpected of turns? It was always going to be a year of change for me, but in now way could I have predicted the the…
Continue reading1. I couldnât keep my eyes open this morning on the bus. I have a horrid feeling that I might have been doing a bit of snoring. Oops! 2. It was damn windy last night (and wet too when I…
Continue reading1. Arthur was still not quite right this morning. Not quite his usual carefree self, and uninterested in food. I booked an appointment with the vet. He does have a bit of a temperature, but otherwise seems to be okay….
Continue readingDamn and blast it, my latest hopes of getting my hands on the curiously rare, but not at all curiously sought after 2000 edition of Graham Oakleyâs The Church Mice Take A Break have come to nothing. Iâve been waiting…
Continue readingI have supposed to have been redesigning and redeveloping my Dadâs website for, like, forever, it seems. Iâve had no good excuse for not doing it, although a while back it was concentrating on finding a job before my redundancy…
Continue readingAbout the only good thing that can be said for today is that my nose has been moderately better behaved with itself than it was the last three days, but I have still felt distinctly woozie. In fact, by the…
Continue readingToday has been a bit lazy, although we did venture out to Stowe Landscape Gardens. Defeated by going in the gardens because of high winds (although curiously the NT tea rooms situated in portacabins amongst tall trees was open?!) we…
Continue reading1. Emma arrived after breakfast this morning, and we did a quick turnaround and headed down to Millets Farm near Abingdon for the now annual (and dare I say, traditional) Abingdon Concert Band carols. Emma was kindly helping out shaking…
Continue readingI think the interview went okay â I really hate answering that question because I never really know. They seemed like nice people, and the job sounds good. They seemed impressed that I managed to arrive at the office okay…
Continue readingBella and Arthurâs Road Trip didnât start in the best way, thanks mainly to the bloody Bicester firemen stuffing the entire middle of Bicester collecting for Children in Need. It was then a slow old journey down south (although not…
Continue readingIn the last half hour before leaving work for my holiday next week, I saw a job advertised which looked promising. At home, whilst packing and getting ready for band tonight, and so without the time to devote to application…
Continue readingAfter the late night yesterday we didnât really get going particularly early today. When we did finally get ourselves moving, we really moved. Taking our bikes up to Burnham Beeches we cycled amongst the leaves and kicked fallen leaves. I…
Continue readingThe title of todayâs entry good well include references to secret assignations and back rooms of public houses. Around 12 noon I pitch up at Emmaâs country cottage whilst she is out at work doing the Saturday morning shift, but…
Continue readingAnother Sunday, another sunny day, and another (bike) trip down memory lane. This time round, Emma and I go out on our bikes along the Bucknell Road and over the M40 to gaze upon an old (possibly listed??) watertower that…
Continue readingEmma arrived around lunchtime and we headed out straight away for the University owned Harcout Arboretum to soak up some autumn colour. Slightly disappointingly, there wasnât so much colour – or at least no where near as dramatic reds as…
Continue readingApparently the exchange rate from pounds to dollars is at its highest for 27 years. What amused me was hearing the English woman interviewed saying that with so many good deals around she wished she’d brought a bigger suitcase. Hang…
Continue readingI weighed myself this morning. I appear to have lost another ½ stone – that’s one full stone in about 7 months! 🙂
Continue readingMy place in band history is assured. In stop flash news the Vale of White Horse District Council have awarded us a grant of £900 to allow us to buy new banners with the colour scheme and logo as described…
Continue readingOn Saturday, the glass cover on my mobile phone cracked, and during the course of the week it has been disintegrating still further. Tonight I have succeeded in fixing it, thanks to the replacement glass arriving from my ebay seller…
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