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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Two minds?

My mind is bursting with ideas and enthusiasm for how my novel should go from this point on, the stories that can be told on the journey north, the ghosts of Helen a few weeks earlier, and what the *fish…

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Excellent News!

My domain transfer from Advent to OpenHosting for Shepline has finally been activated – and you can see the new site with (previously) unseen functionality. For some reason the simple act of moving webhosts means that my referrers script is…

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Poetry and other words…

There should be a collection of poetry and other writings from a writers weekend in Cragg Vale some nine years ago – an ecletic mix of pieces – available in the anthologies section of shepline. However, they are loaded on…

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Late night thoughts…

(upon a novel) The journey to the north. Ben’s orignal plans were to find somewhere to stay over in Akureyri when he gets there. Hanna knows someone – school friend, now living/studying at Hölar. She contacts him – they are…

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Late night thoughts…

(upon a novel) The journey to the north. Ben’s orignal plans were to find somewhere to stay over in Akureyri when he gets there. Hanna knows someone – school friend, now living/studying at Hölar. She contacts him – they are…

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Blood & Fire: a work in progress

Duration: Four months (of which two months September-October 2001) Pages: 76 Words: 20, 251 Chapters: 2 Paragraphs: 617 Lines: 1,931 This is going to be the one. I can feel it. I can sense it. It has a certain life…

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Blood & Fire: a work in progress

Duration: Four months (of which two months September-October 2001) Pages: 76 Words: 20, 251 Chapters: 2 Paragraphs: 617 Lines: 1,931 This is going to be the one. I can feel it. I can sense it. It has a certain life…

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Yesterday

It was my Gran’s funeral. Just me, my Mum and Dad, and my brother at Bournemouth cremetorium to say our farewells. And it was my first funeral – I didn’t go to my grandad’s because at the last minute my…

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Yesterday

It was my Gran’s funeral. Just me, my Mum and Dad, and my brother at Bournemouth cremetorium to say our farewells. And it was my first funeral – I didn’t go to my grandad’s because at the last minute my…

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Songwriting…

No. Don’t worry, I’m not about to make an asault on the next eurovision competition … I’m just trying to get inside the creative head of Hanna Katla and write some of the lyrics that she is to write in…

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Songwriting…

No. Don’t worry, I’m not about to make an asault on the next eurovision competition … I’m just trying to get inside the creative head of Hanna Katla and write some of the lyrics that she is to write in…

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Too hot for shopping

Bit peeved to find this morning that my Írafár CD still hadn’t arrived – I should have ordered it from skífan and not randburg. I went into Oxford briefly to buy cheese from the excellent cheese shop there, and a…

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