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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
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T.J. Brown Hi David

I certainly did read Adams (loved the radio adaption especially), but I think my influences are probably more a mix of the following....

Woody …more
Hi David

I certainly did read Adams (loved the radio adaption especially), but I think my influences are probably more a mix of the following....

Woody Allen, Monty Python/Ripping Yarns, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, Spike Milligan, Conan Doyle, H G Wells, Flann O'Brien, Armando Iannucci, ok... brain has gone dead.. I am waiting for my potato salad to cool.

Glad you are enjoying it. If you fancy a fill in while I prepare the second one you may enjoy two other ventures I wasted valuable free time on. 9 Lovers for Emily Spankhammer (the spinal tap of indie publishing) and The Brief History of Underpants, which is still available for less money than it costs to post. Have at it!
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“So your family has been waiting since 1510 for this La Senza chap to come back then?’ Ascot offered hopefully. Van Loop looked at him sternly. ‘Cardinal La Senza, Mr McCauley, please. You must call our leader by his correct name. Anything else is disrespectful.’ ‘Cardinal, your worship, whatever,’ said Ascot, sneering dismissively. ‘Well, is he what you thought he’d be like?’ ‘I have to confess he’s more annoying than I was expecting. I was prepared for him to be gloriously evil, but he seems a bit more adolescent than that, I fear.’ ‘He certainly has his moments,’ said Ascot. ‘More Dick Dasterdly than Darth Vader.’ ‘I”
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“a real slugfest Dr Barlow. You don’t even know”
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“As the old curator walked bow-backed down the High Street towards his small museum, he looked sadly up at the growing number of estate agent signs and narrowed his eyes; everything seemed to be changing. There were no market days anymore. The big supermarkets in Weymouth and Swanage had long since starved out the butcher, baker and greengrocer, while online shopping had comprehensively killed off the antique shop and the second-hand bookstore. The young families had all drifted off to Dorchester and Bournemouth in search of employment and homes in which you could stand upright. Langton Hadlow had begun to die. The”
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