The Unhappy Medium

NEWTON BARLOW THOUGHT HE KNEW EVERYTHING. NOW... HE KNOWS BETTER.Meet the ultra-rational Dr. Newton Barlow. Cool, cynical, and 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.‘A very funny novel.’'Hilariously smart and funny.'‘More fun than a barrel of monkeys.’Terry Pratchett readers, form an orderly queue.’‘Brian Cox meets Monty Python.’‘Unhappy Medium made me very happy.’‘Hilariously smart and funny.’‘Reminiscent of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens... a rollicking finish.’‘As if the Sixth Sense had been written by Douglas Adams.’'A great example of the genre from a new author to watch out for.'‘Rip-roaring adventure had me laughing out loud.’

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.

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