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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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Said goodbye to an incredible, warm, friendly man today. @chascochand, thank you for understanding me, and for everything you did for me and believing in me. You have been and always will be amazing. #RIPChasCochand #blissfordvoice

Saturday 2 March 2019

Said goodbye to an incredible, warm, friendly man today. @chascochand, thank you for understanding me, and for everything you did for me and believing in me. You have been and always will be amazing. #RIPChasCochand #blissfordvoice

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#Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • From the back room of a pub five years ago to five venues and a whole village celebrating story and the power of words across five venues, #HULitFest is the place to be… #illustration #amillustrating #maps #literaryfestival

Tuesday 26 February 2019

#Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • From the back room of a pub five years ago to five venues and a whole village celebrating story and the power of words across five venues, #HULitFest is the place to be……

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I’ll be there again talking about my stories and how music influences them… #Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • In my new appointment as Official Festival Illustrator, my first task is to make a map for this year’s #HULitFest. Now in its fifth year the all free festival on 27 April has got so big it now needs a map. Come along and join the fun… #illustration #amillustrating #maps

Tuesday 26 February 2019

I’ll be there again talking about my stories and how music influences them… #Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • In my new appointment as Official Festival Illustrator, my first task is to make a map for this year’s #HULitFest….

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Went into Bicester shops this morning to park car to find this pair of shoes very neatly placed by one car; returned an hour later and they had moved to the next car and equally carefully placed… #weird #shoes #strangethingshappeninBicester

Saturday 23 February 2019

Went into Bicester shops this morning to park car to find this pair of shoes very neatly placed by one car; returned an hour later and they had moved to the next car and equally carefully placed… #weird #shoes #strangethingshappeninBicester

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In the bleak midwinter... #oldways #chilterns #midwinter

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Plotting the conclusion to my #ImaginaryFriends series... #ForgottenFriends #MrTumnal #MrTumnal3 #amplotting #amwriting

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Textures and colours. And you wonder why I have a thing about doors, walls, and cobbles... #textures #colour #walls #doors #doorways

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