★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 'Different, Stunning, WOW!'
Meet the ultra-rational Dr Newton Barlow. Cool, cynical, scientific, he's the last man you'd want to be a bridge between the living and the dead. But with his academic reputation in tatters, and nothing to lose but his few remaining marbles, the great skeptic is about to discover that the past that haunts him will be nothing compared to his ghost-ridden future. Thrust into a rollicking struggle between good and evil, can Dr Barlow forget everything he ever believed in to save this world... and the next?Thrilling, chilling and utterly hilarious, The Unhappy Medium is a bone-dry British comedy in the great tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 'If you enjoy a tremendous, imaginative, story, told with passion and affection, and if you like laughing until your face aches, your stomach hurts, and your face is wet with tears, then you must buy this book. You will not regret it.'
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 'Ghosts, purgatory, pure evil, theoretical physics and greedy developers -- all served up with a wonderful sense of humor and style. What's not to like?'
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 'Wow. Amazing read. What an imagination. The first page grabs you and doesn't let go. Newton Barlow is an unforgettable character. Highly recommended.'
About the Author: T J Brown was born in Dorset during the 1960s but was too young to realise how good the decade was meant to be. Instead, he had to make do with the 1970s, which only became interesting towards the end when many, Brown included, started wearing charity-shop clothes and swearing. Conscription into arts school was at this time mandatory and as a result Brown found himself reading German literature, creating miserable paintings and performing music that in retrospect, and at the time, was dreadful. After three lost years at art school Brown moved to London to begin five lost years on the margins of the capital's fashionable underbelly. After all that, a career in publishing almost came as a relief. And so, after many years producing illustrated books on astronomy and aviation, Brown returned to his love of comic writing. He lives in Kent, dangerously close to two pubs.
