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 more1. And so today, we came to the 4th Annual Playing Day. It’s a strange thing, but this is the third one that we’ve had at the Manor Prep School in Abingdon and on every one of those days it…
Continue readingI got back to my desk after lunch today to discover one missed call. The HR person at OUP had called and wanted to speak to me. I called back, and they would like to interview me for the job…
Continue readingI’ve been getting some good critiques from CritiqueCircle. They are perhaps not coming in as numerously as they do to some people – and I still can’t fathom exactly what it is that leads some stories to get dramatically different…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue readingI’ve joined LibraryThing, and have entered details to most of my children’s novels, and the results are quite interesting (although Enid Blyton seems to feature surprisingly high…) Pam Adams | Richard Adams | Allan Ahlberg | Joan Aiken | David…
Continue readingI’ve joined LibraryThing, and have entered details to most of my children’s novels, and the results are quite interesting (although Enid Blyton seems to feature surprisingly high…) Pam Adams | Richard Adams | Allan Ahlberg | Joan Aiken | David…
Continue readingApparently today is the most depressing day of the year. It’s true that my bank balance is looking a bit dipleeted, but not really any more so than usual at this time in a month. I had a good weekend,…
Continue readingIt was a gloriously sunny, winter morning today – you know, the kind that makes you really feel alive, so I headed out to Stowe Landscape Gardens and my pilgrimage to snowdrops(my favourite flower)… Snowdrops Originally uploaded by shepline on…
Continue readingAfter a pleasant walk in crisp, January air and a winter sun, I headed down into Oxford for some leasurely Sunday afternoon book browsing, and of course had to buy some!! 🙂 Quite a nice deal though, as I still…
Continue readingBlanked out last night. I was in the middle of posting yesterday’s entry when I came over a bit woozy, almost sick-like. I went to the kitchen sink but I needed to sit down, put my head between my knees…
Continue reading1. In preparation for my Wicked theatre trip next month, I watched the remastered version of The Wizard of Oz tonight. I can’t remember when I last saw it but it was once upon a (very, very) long time ago….
Continue readingTook myself off to see Miss Potter the new bio-pic of Beatrix Potter’s life. It’s was good. I really enjoyed it. It’s what I woiuld describe as little film, and a nice film. Beautifully shot of course, and beautiful locations…
Continue reading1. Yes, dear readers Britain has once again been ravaged by storms. And yes it has been very bad in places (did anyone see the footage of that aeroplane trying to take off from Birmingham airport?), but like all of…
Continue readingA while back tinyjo pointed me in the directon of the new 10 Downing Street online petitions system, and this one. Well they’ve made a decision and it seems that I will now be legally entitled to buy a CD…
Continue reading1. You can’t call it training, but it is exercise. Tonight, I swam 48 lengths in 50 minutes. Not bad, but if I am to ‘beat the hour’ with my 60 lengths, I need to do better. If you haven’t…
Continue readingNot entirely sure what to say about today. It was not your typical ‘Monday’ by any means, but I’m not sure what it was. It wasn’t quite this, and it wasn’t quite right. Some of the pieces weren’t there, but…
Continue readingToday has largely been about words for me, and I like words… 1. Critted (is that a word – probably not but it sounds better than Critiqued) three chapters of someone’s book on CritiqueCircle. I wonder how much critting you…
Continue reading1. Got up early (yes, woken by John Humphries and the Today programme) this Saturday morning. 9am I had an appointment for an overdue haircut. One of these days, I might be brave enough to change the style, but for…
Continue reading1. Got up early (yes, woken by John Humphries and the Today programme) this Saturday morning. 9am I had an appointment for an overdue haircut. One of these days, I might be brave enough to change the style, but for…
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