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 moreIn light of recent events, I wonder if The Archers will feature a case of bird flu? At the risk of prolonging Mike Tucker’s depression, maybe it could strike down Betty’s hens – and even take ‘fake’ Hayley with them…
Continue readingIn advance of the release of their fourth album the now 3-piece Estonian girl rock band (famously discovered by me by ordering blind off the internet after seeing them on the front cover of Tallinn Airport magazine), the first single…
Continue reading1. Describe your ‘ideal’ woman. I think that I am more of a personality person than looks. Kind and smiley, would be musts. There should be something about the eyes too I think. Someone who is honest and trustworthy. Someone…
Continue readingFirst off, let me say thanks to you all those who commented on my last post. You are all such kind, thoughtful people, on what has been an odd sort of day. Today has definitely been the day that I…
Continue readingI came downstairs this morning to discover that during the night, Pepper has died. He’s lying across the end of the sofa, comfortable like he always used to. But this morning he was cold and still. I’ve just got in…
Continue readingFirst meringues Originally uploaded by shepline on 16 Apr ’06, 11.57pm BST PST. Granpy used to make them for us whenever we visited. I guess the baton may have passed to me… 😉
Continue readingFreyja visits Grannie’s Magic Woods Originally uploaded by shepline on 12 Apr ’06, 10.47pm BST PST. What the English weather couldn’t provide, a little bit of shepline magic has been able to reproduce… The family met up on Chorleywood Common…
Continue readingI’ve been meaning to write posts every day for all of the last week, but I somehow haven’t had the time. That said, I have been spending an awfully lot of the time at my laptop. My writing has been…
Continue readingToday was one of those early Spring days that warms your heart and feeds your soul. From glorious sunrise, to winding back the sunroof for the first time this year on the way home from work. Something is working, and…
Continue readingAt 15:29 on Saturday 1 April 2006, I finished chapter five (or part five, if I subsequently do decide to sub-divide the titled parts with numbered chapters) of Blood & Fire. And so, I stand at a kind of precipice;…
Continue readingAs I stumble ever the closer to the end of my penultimate chapter/part of The Novel, I find myself writing backwards. I don’t often do this, but occasionally I find it useful to write a scene and then work backwards…
Continue readingThe We in this post is Abingdon Concert Band, and the eviction is as of last night. Apparently there have been complaints from the Guild Hall ‘above’, and so we are being asked to leave our current rehearsal space. Let…
Continue readingMy time as been inputed into the great Swimathon computer of the sky, and it shows, that in my class, I came 25th, which I think isn’t half bad… Results for the 1500m challenge Name Age Category Time Position Mark…
Continue readingThe end of the bridge and you’re on the way home. The end of the bridge and you’re half-way there. Hanna leans into the song, her face taught in emotion. Wind blows through her hair. Alongside her Halldór fingers the…
Continue readingNote to self: Vanilla Ninja have a single and album out next month…
Continue readingReading this, made me laugh, made me smile; brought sunshine and light into my evening. I couldn’t not write back… 🙂
Continue readingGive me ten words, either in a sentence or several phrases, and I will splice into my novel for you†. †The Author guarantees that these words will make the first draft, but does not guarantee their survival to the final…
Continue readingAs everyone will be aware by now, I didn’t drown in the process of doing my sponsored swim. Ermm, no … however my weekend was not without injury… I now have a fetching scar/burn running in a line across my…
Continue readingAfter a gorgeously sunny start to today, as the hours have progressed, the greyer it became until rain overtook us. With raindrops on the window, and filled with the comforting fill of my roast lamb dinner, I settled down to…
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