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 more( or Drystone Walling and the Dolomites ) Across The Lagoon Day 1. 21 June 2004 Wednesday. Arrived in Venice ahead of schedule, and, having traversed the plush new airport discovering that you can’t get trollies without a 1 Euro…
Continue readingRegular readers of these pages will of course know that I am not one to comment on football, but interest has been raised due to my recent holiday in Italy and the friends I made there. For this reason then,…
Continue readingI’ve still got a lot of sorting to do to get the number that I want to have printed, but the Italian photogallery is now complete, and awaiting viewing. Although there are rather a lot of them… ( from Venice…
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Continue readingLast night I returned, tired from my excellent and v. enjoyable holiday in Italy. Photos and travelogues to come on the subject, but first, a poll, not entirely unrelated…
Continue readingThis year’s shepline travelogue adventure… To Venice & Beyond …in all quality friends pages near to you, this July.
Continue readingToday the weather changed; from a morning of bright blue sky, hot sun and still air, the breeze picked up, then the wind, and clouds rolled in across the sky. Now it’s turned cold, and grey, and we’ve had rain……
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Continue readingThe hardshoulder thing actually gave me an idea for another novel – a ‘Road Book’ as it were: a story of a writer leaving his home (possibly in Edinburgh, although maybe it would be better being further north than that…
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Continue readingThe annoying thing about driving is that you can’t just stop and write down things that occur to you as you’re driving, particularly when you are cruising at 70 down the outside lane of A34. Similarly I don’t want to…
Continue readingIn my little corner of Britain (and by mine, I mean the 10×40 feet bit that I own), it was 86°s today. That’s 30°C in new money… Hot, hot, hot. And still no thunderstorms!
Continue reading1. Took advantage of some terribly dull and unimportant football match yesterday to get into the centre of Oxford and do som necessary shopping in advance of Venice and Beyond. Bought myself a new down sleeping bag from Blacks –…
Continue readingDon’t forget there’s still time to take control of my camera…
Continue readingThis was the night of the first of this summer’s Blackwell excursions to Creation Theatre’s outdoor theatre. And what a night for it, hot and sunny, and just the kind of evening to be in the parks, amongst the trees,…
Continue readingEmily and Arthur. Two days after I return from Italy, on the 7 July, I will be picking up my new kittens. Chaos, cuddles and fun will no doubt ensue afterwards…
Continue readingI’ve just arranged to go and see the little boy cat and little girl cat next Sunday. The people seem delighted by the idea that they will be going to the same home, and are alright with the idea of…
Continue readingI may have found my kittens. One of my parent’s neighbours cats had kittens a while back, one of which, now living away from home, has had kittens. They have two left, a male and a female, both small, short-haired…
Continue readingLast year, I asked for suggestions of postcards to send back from Romania. On Midsummer’s day I fly out to Venice, and from their, after three days of seeing the sinking city, two weeks in the dolomites. I now have…
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