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 moreA little after 9pm this evening, I completed my challenge of 1500 metres (or 60 lengths) for this years Swimathon in aid of NCH, the children’s charity. After a more than flaky first 12 lengths where in I consumed a…
Continue readingMy new iRiver H10 has a photo viewing function, and whilst loading up holiday photos onto it, I realised that shepline.com was lacking any galleries from my various trips to Iceland. Today I rectify this error, and can launch galleries…
Continue readingIn a few short hours, I will be doing my sponsored swim. And yes, I am nervous about it. I’m not really sure why I’m nervous, it’s not like I haven’t been doing 48 lengths every week for the last…
Continue readingI’ve just swum sixty lengths of the pool and I’m not dead … or drowned! 🙂
Continue readingQuite incredibly, it actually was standing room only last night in Abingdon Baptist Church for Abingdon Concert Band’s Broadway Showstoppers concert. Normally we are lucky if we get three old men and a dog, and feel it a good audience…
Continue readingIf this doesn’t encourage me to keep going I don’t know what will?! Am loving your style, and the story certainly has me gripped. —Laura, from my crit group over at WriteWords
Continue readingI ordered one of these last night to replace my, now ailing, iRiver. Two year’s faithful service, and it’s still going. That’s the problem, you can’t stop it going…! Edit: Hanging around the dabs.com site reveals that my order is…
Continue reading…so I guess I can be two people! My latest songwriting collaboration with Hanna Katla Baldursdóttir. Ermm … can one have a songwriting collaboration with a fictional character?
Continue readingThe end of the bridge and you’re on the way home. The end of the bridge and you’re half way there. It’s in your world not mine. It’s dark and it’s cold it’s breaking apart Join me Come with me…
Continue readingTop of the Pops my artistic savour? It’s kind of embarrassing to admit it. My point though? Right now, I don’t care. I’m writing again. I don’t know how long for, but something – some words – are coming.
Continue readingI find myself at the end of an annoyingly unproductive weekend. It doesn’t help, that I seem to have a cold which is sapping my creative energy, as I drift listless from task to another. I never wrote about it…
Continue readingOr at least my beloved iRiver is unable to stop – unless by means of the remote control. After two years faithful service, my 20Gb container of my entire music collection is giving up the ghost. That’s a slight exageration…
Continue reading…is their new album Takk (Thank you) the only one that the BBC have access to at the moment. Not only are they using track three, Hoppipoka for their trails of Planet Earth, but they are using it for the…
Continue readingAfter a gloriously sunny morning, it was like we were back to school this afternoon, as the snow came down, swirling around our second floor office window – and wheee!! – started to settle. An event made all the more…
Continue readingJust got back from my Tuesday swim, pleasantly tired from 46 lengths of exursion – in three goes, one of 14, and two of 16 lengths. So with 16 lengths, I have effectively swum round a running track – in…
Continue readingEvil will, in the end, be vanquished. It is just a matter of time. That said, although I no longer use the the big money-grabbing-capitalist-Tesco on the edge of Bicester due to the fact that it has a worse stock…
Continue readingDroplet Originally uploaded by shepline on 26 Feb ’06, 5.55pm PST. It says it all really? How can snowdrops fail to make you feel good? ( more )
Continue readingI’ve seen this meme around my friends page for a while now. It’s taken the till now for me to get tagged into doing it, and this through the audacity of bege_ who decided to tag me first and then…
Continue readingWell, clever cleanskies was first to guess the identity of my little Guess Who? earlier this afternoon. This news, to be reported tomorrow in the authoritve Blissford Voice, is copied here for your amusement. For the uninitiated, ESW stands for…
Continue readingGuess who my dad had lunch with yesterday? Hint: They are very famous, very rich, and they own a good chunk of land…
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