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 moreI’m not sure how it happened, but after just one week of idle gazing across the room at that little corner of wallpaper – a piece of it came off in my hands this morning. Okay, so it was helped…
Continue readingThe following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge ( from the Guardian Essential Differences page ) Take the interactive empathy quotient test Take the interactive systemising quotient test Baron-Cohen’s…
Continue readingSimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test How Compatible are You with me? Go on, give it a whirl…! (thanks to rachel2205 for finding the site…)
Continue readingMum and Dad came to visit this week, along with Sam – which was interesting – Pepper quickly informed the poor dog who was boss with a fine display of arched-back, hissing and growling. I think Sam took an immediate…
Continue readingJust saw this in my friends view and had to share it further – thanks gooroo… ( the fish family )
Continue readingI have a widget thing for my computer now – it’s a Billionton USB Portable Drive – about the size of my little finger it’s purple and transparent and winks at me with a little green light and it holds…
Continue readingThe day was Wednesday. The weather was, err … wet, very wet, and the The Boathouse was grotty (as it turns out), but Wallingford (as nice as it sounds) was a convenient meeting place (and half way between Bicester and…
Continue readingI’ve been composing this throughout the day, in between processing Monthly Notices of the RAS, and having story conferences with soulsong, and I just need to get this section of text home to work on there…
Continue readingI’ve been composing this throughout the day, in between processing Monthly Notices of the RAS, and having story conferences with soulsong, and I just need to get this section of text home to work on there…
Continue readingBen was working on his science/geography project one night. The next morning he flies out to Iceland, expecting to meet his cousin and his sister, but is greeted by his cousin with the news that his sister is missing, feared…
Continue readingBen was working on his science/geography project one night. The next morning he flies out to Iceland, expecting to meet his cousin and his sister, but is greeted by his cousin with the news that his sister is missing, feared…
Continue readingAnd so, we seem to be plunged back into winter. It’s cold. It’s grey. It’s wet. It’s horrid, horrid, horrid weather! And it’s not doing anything for my creativity (which is particularly bad) – and hence the recent dearth of…
Continue readingI finally finished reading Firesong by William Nicholson last night (which is good because I can read the Ursula Le Guin that I’ve been looking forward to getting stuck into), and I have to say that it was good, but…
Continue readingPicking up the theme from soulsong‘s post (here), it is interesting and frustrating when you want to write but are actually prevented from doing so. I’m thinking of those times, when you start off with your 8-4:15 day at work,…
Continue readingWell, I’ve done it. I’ve applied for it. A new job? Who knows really – it’s a bit of a long shot, being in CD production really – but a potentially interesting diversion away from scientific journals… hmmn New Media…
Continue readingWell, I’ve done it. I’ve applied for it. A new job? Who knows really – it’s a bit of a long shot, being in CD production really – but a potentially interesting diversion away from scientific journals… hmmn New Media…
Continue readingI had decided that Ben (and his family) have to go through the loss/uncertainty of Helen’s fate in some depth in order to have the reader feel the length of time and emptiness of her disappearance. The trouble is knowing…
Continue readingI had decided that Ben (and his family) have to go through the loss/uncertainty of Helen’s fate in some depth in order to have the reader feel the length of time and emptiness of her disappearance. The trouble is knowing…
Continue readingJust stood in the kitchen and watched Pepper make his way out for a night on the town, and he was funny. He sort of stroked the cat flap with his paw but it wouldn’t go anywhere (it’s a magnetic…
Continue readingYesterday it was a little bit cold, and Pepper wanted to go for a bit but I didn’t want to leave the patio doors open. So I showed him the catflap. Nudging his feet at it he went out. Then…
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