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 moreLast night I had a dream, which I don’t really remember. However what I do remember, happened right at the end. I dreampt I woke up, and got up, and switched on the tv news to be faced by a…
Continue readingI have now have a 1000 word opener for Flyht and for Blood & Fire, I even have a 200 word appreciation of Diana Wynne Jones. All I need now is a 350 word synopsis for each. And herein I…
Continue readingFor some, it is Charmed Life that stands out as their favourite book by this acclaimed author. Certainly the world of Crestomanci, either as boy or magician, is an enticing one, however, for me the book that stands out as…
Continue readingWell I’ve tightened up the opening five pages to Flyht and its now within spittings distance of making the 1000 word deadline (hopefully, as long as it *feels* the right length, the competition organisers won’t be too fussy?!). I must…
Continue readingTaking an end of summer break from Oxford living at my parent’s house in the New Forest, I’ve finally got back to real, writerly work. I’ve reviewed the opening pages of both Flyht and Blood & Fire and have now…
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Continue readingJo has kindly fixed my archives page, so now, dear reader, you can peruse the full, and rapidly extensive, back catalogue of my journal. It’s a good job that I have an idea for a userpic by return, after all…
Continue reading…whenever I receive something in the mail from Megan or Heather, the gifts are always packaged up so beautifully and intricately. Waiting for me at home today, was my Pi bracelet! Yes! I’m now wearing Pi to x-number of multi-coloured…
Continue readingSent out a global email round the office this afternoon, to gauge potential interest for a London theatre trip to see Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials at the National Theatre. Within about ten minutes, about twenty or so people had…
Continue reading( haymaking in hungary ) Lard Roast and Paper Making Day 5. 22 July 2004 Thursday. Six o’clock, and I’m staggering bleary-eyed from my bed, to meet out in the yard as the tractor is loaded, and rubbing on suntan…
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Continue readingerr… due to unforgiveable bad planning, card’s (only just) in the post. Hoping that you can forgive the disorganisation – and that despite this you have the greatest of great days!!!
Continue readingI went for another bike ride this morning – on a journey to no where. Having *found* my bicycle once again, I was keen to go somewhere, so I biked around the cycle ways of Bicester. I must get the…
Continue reading( haymaking in hungary ) A Journey North: The Holiday Begins Day 4. 21 July 2004 Wednesday. Morning comes again, and so does breakfast in the vaulted, basement of the Marco Polo Club. After Zoë’s description of last night we…
Continue readingHaving got back on the road on two wheels – and boy does it feel good – I want more. If I want to attempt the unthinkable and bike to Oxford, is there a cycle route that doesn’t take me…
Continue readingHave finally got round to ditching the defunct pair of computer speakers and old breadmaker in the local tip, and have just given my garden shed a bit of a sort out, so that I actually canwalk into it and…
Continue readingComfort foods are normally reserved for those that you eat in the long winter nights. Not so, this recipe from my Hungarian holiday.
Continue reading( haymaking in hungary ) Waiting for Zoë Day 3. 20 July 2004 Tuesday. I wake to the sounds of: a) a dustcard collecting it’s rounds, b) roadworks, or c) the house next door being demolished. I think it is…
Continue readingMystic Pizza Have now retrieved my slide/negative scanner from elsewhere in the family and so can at last recreate the *mystic pizza/ghosts in the meal* and *window* sequences from c. 1994 (the original prints sadly lost in the fire of…
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