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 moreA solution has been found. Suggested by a good friend on Saturday night, I now know that I can avoid the necessity of building a cabin. I shall instead, get myself a Midnight Garden… 🙂 Of course it also means…
Continue readingAt precisely 8:11 hours and 37 seconds on the 12 February 2004, this journal will be exactly one year old, and I will have posted in the region of 400 times to it during that time. To mark this occasion,…
Continue reading1. When and why did you take up your instrument? What keeps you playing? Aged 9, when I started Middle School, I started to learn to play the trumpet. I got to a resonable standard, played in the school orchestra…
Continue readingHad a phone call this evening to say that band was cancelled – which saves me driving in late night, (potentially) icy roads. So what to do? I curled myself up at the end of the sofa, and watched, enraptured…
Continue readingSo Greg Dyke has resigned as Director General of the BBC. So the BBC was wrong, and the Government were right over the intelligence evidence of WMD and the reasons to go war? What next then? Government appoints a new…
Continue readingI got up as usual shortly after six, ventured out at seven and explored my route out of the estate, and then upon discovering the lovely ice rink before me retreated back inside my house, fired up the computer, logged…
Continue reading…recorded for posterity, it does, upon occasion snow in Bicester. Awe! Very pretty…
Continue reading16:15 hours: Nothing to report, bunch of folk leave to go home (I’m working a bit late because of 2 hour lunch to celebrate Kim’s birthday) 16:40 hours: Global company email: “For those travelling further a field tonight we have…
Continue readingI’m not a line manager, and I’m not a team leader (officially), however I am a *senior* person in the Professional Division team, as such I have additional responsibilities (mainly KPI reporting and the like). It now seems that I…
Continue readingAs I stepped out the leisure centre tonight, I stepped out be greeted by the this much hyped snow! Well, okay so I could literally count the number of snowflakes on the fingers of one hand, but hey, it was…
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 100 current wordcount: 26,852
Continue readingOkay, I accept that if I go to the pub I have to face the prospect of reeking of cigarette fumes afterwards. What I don’t accept, is that this should happen to me after going to a copy shop to…
Continue reading…but you’ll have to wait a wee while longer… *grins*
Continue readingMy life has been rated: See what your rating is!
Continue readingCooked this recipe from stelpa – thank you – ’twas delicious… Ingredients 750g lamb fillets, sliced thinly 3 cloves garlic, crushed 60ml light soy sauce 80ml sweet sherry 1 tbs cornflour 2 tbs vegetable oil 1 tbs brown sugar 1…
Continue readingCooked this recipe from stelpa – thank you – ’twas delicious… Ingredients 750g lamb fillets, sliced thinly 3 cloves garlic, crushed 60ml light soy sauce 80ml sweet sherry 1 tbs cornflour 2 tbs vegetable oil 1 tbs brown sugar 1…
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