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 moreElves are mythical creatures of Germanic mythology that have survived in northern European folklore. Originally a race of minor gods of nature and fertility, they are often pictured as small, youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests…
Continue readingIt may not be the greatest 401 words that I have ever written, but sometimes when writing your novel, you have to write your way through the bad to reach again, the good. And so it is that I have…
Continue readingToday I intended to devote to writing many many words of Blood & Fire. It is now ten minutes to seven, and I have: cut the grass cut back the budlea cleared out the bean plants weeded the garden front…
Continue readingMaybe? Maybe not? Spurred on by yesterday’s swimming, today I weighed myself. 14 stone – apparently. Yay, I’ve lost one! I get off, and on again, to double check. Two stone more. Off, and on. A shade under 15, and…
Continue readingA hopeless tale but a hauntingly, beautiful, powerful and moving film. I am ashamed to say that I know little of Ted Hughes and even less of Sylvia Plath. I have just finished watching the film, Sylvia – I would…
Continue readingTrying to remember the pre-scything exercise at the orchard in Hungary last summer, and the similar pre-footpath construction halfway up a mountain in Iceland of two years ago, I attempted to do a few stretching exercises in the shallow end…
Continue readingTonight, we were back with the female nude of our first lesson, and this foot is, I think, one of my greatest achievments of this week. There were considerably less of us here this week – and I’m not sure…
Continue readingWent swimming after work today. Got a stitch after 8 lengths again! I think I’m going to have to do some form of warm up exercises? Any suggestions? Despite this, I still managed to swim 40 lengths in 40 minutes…
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Continue readingI was talking with a colleague in the pub on Friday evening about weblogs and the merits of one blogging service against the other. Apparently he chose blogspot because he dislikes the idea that livejournal users can form friendgroups and…
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Continue reading( haymaking in hungary ) Attila #8: ‘It’s Very Flexible’ Day 7. 24 July 2004 Saturday. I sleep well but for far too short a time. We stagger out tired and zombie-like to the tractor – and thence to the…
Continue readingSatisfied and regenerated. Yesterday I drove south to Abingdon and took to the waters: 42 lengths in 50 minutes, and emerged pleasently achey because of it – I think it’s done me some good. Then I shopped for food and…
Continue readingFurther to an email discussion in the last week or so about about found images, veeb today brought my attention to a strangely related thing… http://www.engadget.com/entry/6325545908932866/ “Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a…
Continue readingSetting up paper and easils tonight I somehow found myself with a full frontal pose to somehow draw, which was actually very hard when the subject is seated and you somehow have to show the deph of field and perspective…
Continue readingAfter the difficulties getting up recently, I was quite impressed with how promptly I managed to drag myself from my warm, cozy bed in the dim half-light of morning. Showered, breakfast I was heading out the door when Julian kindly…
Continue reading( haymaking in hungary ) Attila #2: ‘I am very lazy’ Day 6. 23 July 2004 Friday. I wake close to 6 o’clock with the remnants of a very, very weird dream – impossible to recount or describe – that…
Continue readingOkay, not two things that you would normally hear in the same sentence, but that in four words, was my weekend. I really couldn’t say why I’ve left it till the last minute to do the tax return (it’s due…
Continue readingA couple of nights ago, I had this dream involving a school outing to a remote castle where we would be staying. The journey involved two buses, one driven by an evil, crazed bus driver, and the other – one…
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