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 moreOur dog Sam has died. I am sad. I have had a sniffle and a cry. I am also relieved. I am a mix of emotions. He was eight, but he had Cushing’s Disease and was losing alot of weight….
Continue readingIn tandem with searching on the internet, and asking around, I thought I’d through this question out tall my lovely friends to see if you can help me… Whilst on my trip for Iceland, I found a really nice lava…
Continue readingI’ve applied for a new job at Blackwell’s. It’s for the same department, different subject different, doing the job of Production Editor – the job that it is invisaged that eventually, ECQC’s (Electronic Content Quality Controllers) will become. The thing…
Continue readingCopies of Passport of Words have today been despatched to treasure_box, nevers, sitonmykarma and absinthe_green. I hope you enjoy it… *scampers away to hide and pray*
Continue reading( The Land of the Midnight Sun ) The Old Friend Day 2. 16 June 2004 Wednesday. A good night’s sleep later – should I say ‘night’ when it never actually got dark? I rise and wash quickly before settling…
Continue readingI’ve now printed a load of copies of my 48-hour zine, Passport of Words, and just have to assemble them and post them off – hopefully tomorrow. The page alignment is going to be a wee bit off, but that’s…
Continue readingThe BBC Radio 4 travel show Excess Backage are running a Travel Writing competition. Based on Exhibit A, do I have what it takes to enter? Write 2,000 words on the journey that changed you, to win a residential, travel…
Continue reading( The Land of the Midnight Sun ) The Journey North Day 1. 15 June 2004 Tuesday. A circumfluent route is taken to get to Oxford when Julian arives at my house a little after 7 o’clock. Missing the turn…
Continue readingLike treasure_box said, it’s silly but with an element of truth…
Continue readingI’m getting there – the problem is with you guys, is that every post is worth reading…
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Continue readingCurrently reading: [the last 300 entries on my friends page] Whilst lj continues to be reasonably okay speed-wise I will try and get up to date with what all my lovely friends have been doing over the past two weeks,…
Continue readingToday I received a copy of Full Tilt #2 and Glory-of-the-snow by Megan and Heather respectively. This, together with Helen’s All that matters is what makes you happy, which was waiting for me when I got home from holiday yesterday,…
Continue readingTwelve hours after I woke up this morning (4 am) and 11 hours after I left the front door of Funafold 13, I walked into my own back door to be greeted enthusiastically by Pepper. After an hour sitting on…
Continue readingRelaxing in the silica enriched Blue Lagoon has to be the way to spend a morning… http://www.bluelagoon.is
Continue readingOn today´s tour of Reykjavik – following on from the Open Air Museum, lunch in a revolving restaurant on top of four disused water towers, a tour of the bus station (for research purposes) – I have now wandered into…
Continue readingStart the week with a hot pot and a swim and finish off with three museums and a hot chocolate to die for…
Continue readingFrom one fjord to another we make our way from hot pool to tern attack to driftwood piles, and so to Breidaholt.
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