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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What are reading this #autumn????? In a story that opens as summer ends and then takes you through the year #MrTumnal is the perfect story for the season. Get the link in the bio. . Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone’s become real. . #amreading #books #autumnreads

What are reading this #autumn????? In a story that opens as summer ends and then takes you through the year #MrTumnal is the perfect story for the season. Get the link in the bio. . Everyone has an idea of…

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@heffers_cambridge was the first *real* bookshop. I remember losing myself in the books of the children’s bookshop across the road and then losing my mum and dad in the cavernous interior of the main shop… #bookshops #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

@heffers_cambridge was the first *real* bookshop. I remember losing myself in the books of the children’s bookshop across the road and then losing my mum and dad in the cavernous interior of the main shop… #bookshops #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

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With its plain, modern frontage and concrete, cavernous interior I had always assumed @heffers_cambridge to be a brutalistic concrete building but it’s actually a rather fine old brick mid-terrace… #bookshops #illustration #amillustrating #TheBookloversGuidetoBookshops

With its plain, modern frontage and concrete, cavernous interior I had always assumed @heffers_cambridge to be a brutalistic concrete building but it’s actually a rather fine old brick mid-terrace… #bookshops #illustration #amillustrating #TheBookloversGuidetoBookshops

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