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?
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Saturday’s magnolia is my own, in the garden of Bicester Zoo, and is the purest of whites… #magnolia #stellata #spring #flowers???? @vnemma
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When you find yourself up shit creek in a leaky boat with no paddle, sometimes it is better to jump out and swim for shore rather than going over the waterfall down stream… #NoBrexit #RevokeArtical50
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This seems like a reasonable suggestion to me… #nobrexit????????
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On Thursday it’s all about the colour yellow as springtime in Oxford continues… #Oxford #SouthPark #yellow #daffodil #spring
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Wednesday’s Oxford magnolia is all about the pink! #Oxford #universitychurchofstmarythevirgin #pink #magnolia #spring #springequinox
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“Wasn’t that what writers were supposed to do – make things up, make lies seem like truth, create new versions of themselves?” #DavidAlmond #onwriting #halfacreaturefromthesea
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A meeting of the (soon-to-be) friends is getting closer… #SplitChloë #FluteyLucy #whenChloëMetLucy #MrTumnal3 #ForgottenFriends #amwriting
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More of the Oxford magnolia, this time with added lantern, and dreaming spires… #Oxford #magnolia #radcliffesquare #radcliffecamera
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The magnificent magnolia tree… #magnolia #radcliffesquare
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Spring colours in the garden… #flowers???? #hazel #mahonia #blackthorn #daffodil #forsythia
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Is this because @jennaa0 thinks that I am bananas…? ????????
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I’ve written a lot of chapter three today but it has mostly been narrative description. I’m looking forward to chapter four because I get my two new favourite characters come together so they can actually talk! #MrTumnal3 #ForgottenFriends #amwriting
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Listening to #MauriceAndré playing Handel’s Trumpet Concertos (albeit on CD not over-played cassette) still evokes 35 year old memories of reading Arthur Ransomes Missee Lee and still inspires me creatively. ••• What music and listening format still brings back those…
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iPods are too easy. I don’t play my CDs enough… #TheFirebird #stravinsky #cdcollection #CDs #iknowpuristswouldargueforvinyl
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A little bit #fairytale magic from @creationtheatre in my house… #thriftshop
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We’ll always have Neverland! @vnemma and I visited the @creationtheatre #thriftshop today and came away with some memories… #peterpan #snowqueen #treasureisland #swallowsandamazonsforever
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I’m a write-by-the-seat-of-my-pants writer rather than a meticulous plotter (where’s the fun on that?) but I do like to have a plan for little bits so these notes are going to be invaluable for completing the current chapter… #MrTumnal #MrTumnal3…
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“Somewhere, from a far off room a tune made it’s way out – oboe or flute – lilting out through the stillness” ••• Love it when *that* music makes its first appearance in #MrTumnal3: #ForgottenFriends. @neilbrownless and @abingdonconcertband are familiar…
Continue readinghttps://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/4c481e7bd9eb08e9f63ac7e87970c506/5C8A0E0F/t50.2886-16/54401537_1212208168928909_958144647538933760_n.mp4?_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com Tops of trees moving // whole branches swaying // Trying to remember my wind speed identification… #StormGeorge #wind????
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The Tree of Life… #treeoflife #peace #remberance #woodland @rspb_love_nature
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