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 moreSometime between 1 and 1.30 this afternoon the rain started in earnest. White lines of rain pouring from the sky. And it continued â all afternoon â and I was glad that I wimped out biking it into work today….
Continue readingSo we wonât be getting any parodies of titanic fights between (Flash) Gordon Brown and (Ming) Menzies the Merciless at the next election. Amusing though to reflect on David Cameron saying, in response to the news, that âhe was a…
Continue readingAaghh! What a horrid day! Slept well, but itâs taken me an hour to get to only as far as the Park&Ride what with inexplicable traffic queues and accidents! Iâm on the bus now, but its slow and oh great,…
Continue readingDidnât want to go to work this morning. I didnât sleep well, waking at 4.30 with muscle pain in my back and never really got back to sleep. I did get up on time though (in part because it was…
Continue readingUnder Autumn sunshine, Emma and I went to the RHS garden at Wisley today, to see the Autumn colours, and in the vegetable garden in particular planned our own âfutureâ garden. Then in the evening we went to her parents…
Continue readingTonightâs concert was not quite like any other I have ever done. With a Proms-style, the Abingdon Guildhall was decked out in bunting, union jacks, and red, white and blue balloons, and the auditorium arranged around five long tables. We…
Continue readingI went to answer my mobile just now, so I nipped out onto the stairwell. It was Emma, wanting to know if I wanted to join her and her friends going Ice skating outside the National History Museum in December….
Continue readingWhen I came to make my lunch this morning I found that I had no bananas. There was a rather scrummy looking bread’n’butter pudding on offer in the canteen today. In some kind of rather flawed and backward logic I…
Continue readingI donât really understand what the fuss is all about as regards the recently announced changes to capital gains tax. Yes, I can see how if money, and in particular maximising money, is your key driving force in your life,…
Continue readingWeird: Passing through reception this morning I could here some strange singing, and it seemed to be coming from the security desk. Two of the guys (one being the stern man with the impressive mustache who is cross with you…
Continue readingMy lunchtimes (at work) recently have consisted of being evenly split between reading The Timetraveller’s Wife and revising my own nove. The former is written in first person, present tense; and the latter in third person, present tense… I’ve been…
Continue readingCan it really be a week ago that I was heading off into a cloud on the way up Scafell Pike? Seems like so much longer ago than that…
Continue readingCurrently Iâm inputting changes to Oxford Reference Online â updates of dates (mainly dates and details), at the moment for the letter A but also for significant others. As such I have just segued seamlessly from noting Saddam Husseinâs trial…
Continue readingIâm currently reading Audrey Niffeneggerâs The Time Travellerâs Wife and Iâm loving it. Itâs uniquely original, and fantastic read. It is also incredibly wonky – in its constant switching between characters and times and its all told in the present…
Continue readingI had to chase the agency to get them to find this out, but what I knew 10 days ago is true. I have a second interview for the eProduction Editor job at T&F. Guess I better download that trial…
Continue readingA bit of a lazy day really, but then after a week of intense exercise I think that thatâs allowed. Iâve downloaded my photos and looked at them, and there are some stunners there. Been to Waitrose to get some…
Continue readingA little after 6 oâclock this evening, I arrived into Bicester North, and there, on the platform waiting for me was Emma. Iâve never had a girlfriend meet off a train before, and it was a very nice feeling. Not…
Continue readingIn preparation for second draft revision work of Part Three of Blood & Fire I’ve been reading it through with fresh eyes. It seems to be very much a chapter of two halves. The first bit is akin to Part…
Continue readingJess was on my Romania holiday with me in 2005. Since then, she’s travelled further through Transylvania and volunteered in India. Now she’s running the Great North Run to raise money for a school she taught at whilst in India….
Continue reading1. Cold though it might have been to get up to this morning, the quality of light and crispness to the air, and the smell of the day was gorgeous. It was the kind of day that reminds me why…
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