Mr Tumnal

Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone’s become real

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About me

Derbyshire born. Suffolk bred. Lives in the shires.

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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  The Imaginary Wife

The Imaginary Wife

How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?

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Go west

Paved roads behind us we drive out to the end of island … to the very west of the western fjords…

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Hydrogen bus?

Is it really powered in some way by hydrogen? Certainly seems to be steam rather than fumes coming from the exaust…

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Landed

…phone seems to be working. I’m connected to something called Is Tal – or Og Vodafone. Iceland looks just how I left it!

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Bag packed and ready to go

And so, it’s time for me to say aurevoir, toodlepip, sees you later. My bag is packed, I think I have everything (I hope I have everything), and I’m ready for the off. Tomorrow, at approximately 1pm I will be…

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Holiday mode…

It’s hot again today. It’s even hot in this air-con office. So I’ve taken the sensible choice, and have come to work in shorts and cork-soled, slip on sandles. There’s something very nice about sitting here, working on journals whilst…

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My first zine

It is completed – and with a few hours to spare. I’ve enjoyed it to, putting together, words, thoughts, drawings, and other found objects in a little booklet, putting aside the constraints of my computer and working with fingers, and…

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cocktail

My personal taste is to add a dash more friendliness and go easy on the ego… *grins* How to make a shepline Ingredients: 1 part friendliness 5 parts self-sufficiency 5 parts ego Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled…

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Yes…

It’s a zine. It’s about travel. It’s a miscellany. It’s a 32 page booklet. And it doesn’t matter if some of them are blank. Can you guess what I’m doing?

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608

For the first time since writing in these pages my friends list and my friends of list are almost identical – with only beesef_book and stelpa letting the side down. I like having my friends list the same. ^__^

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zine news…

My travel inspired zine has come across some unexpected inspiration … I think this might just be going to work…

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Golden sun, lush new growth

Poured myself a glass of wine and settled down to dinner of lasagna and fresh spring vegetables followed by a bowl of raspberries. I followed this by giving the dogs a walk up the hill. The sun by this time…

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Road Trip

So thanks to working extra time during the week – primarily arriving at 7.30 or soon after, I walked out of work at a little after quarter to two. I was momentarilly delayed by a conversation with Helen concerning the…

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Found!

Whilst searching high and low for a sealed envelope containing my left over Estonian money – needed ideally for my 48 hour zine idea – I came across a sheet of negatives in my desk draw, black and white ones…

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the seeds of travel

I’m beginning to get things sorted for my holiday, particularly as Pepper and me are off tomorow evening for a weekend of house and dog sitting in the New Forest (me folks are off to Suffolk for the Aldburgh Festival)…

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My democratic right

I’ve taken myself off to vote and placed my cross in the box of my choosing, not that there was much choosing when it came to the local council elections. Labour it seems couldn’t be mithered to put up a…

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