The Unhappy Medium by T.J. Brown is available now on Audible
Hello again, dear Audiobooks Fans! I want to take the time today and shine a spotlight on a new audiobook – The Unhappy Medium written by T.J. Brown, narrated by Marston York and published by the author himself.
Since its release in 2014, The Unhappy Medium has seen 70,000 downloads, being reviewed over 600 times and has an average star rating of 4.5. Book one of this series is currently charting in both the US and UK. Now, you have the chance to enjoy this read as well in audiobook format.
The Publisher’s Summary reveals more about this bone-dry British comedy in the great tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett:
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?
Although frequently compared to Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, or Jim Butcher, author T.J. Brown says his main influences come from Woody Allen, G.K. Chesterton, or M.R. James.
With twenty plus years in the “book mines”, creating illustrated non-fiction as a designer, illustrator and occasional writer, his career took many forms, including that of a singer in a band, or even a fashion model. His professional writing career became a serious concern after he released The Brief history of Underpants in 2008 for Quercus books.
As he highlights on The Unhappy Medium book website, T.J. Brown was born in Dorset during the 1960’s 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. The result is THE UNHAPPY MEDIUM.
The Unhappy Medium is narrated by Marston York, an English voice over artist and writer based in London, with a home studio and growing portfolio of voice work from animated character voices to continuity and narration. What’s more, Marston also recorded the author’s short ghost story, The Last Photograph of John Buckley.
T.J. Brown is also working on the second Unhappy Medium novel, Tom Fool, which is nearing completion with an expected launch in June. The third novel in the series, Wretched Things, is expected to be launched in December.
I am already listening to the The Unhappy Medium audiobook and will post a review sometime next week! Stay safe!
Victor Dima
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