Brandon began her career as a trainee producer for the BBC, working in radio and television. She moved to work in freelance journalism and as an author.[1] She is the author of many works of both fiction and nonfiction.[2]
Her popular book Spiritualists: Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1983) was republished by Prometheus Books. The book has been influential to skeptics as it debunked spiritualism by documenting the absurdity and fraud in mediumship.[3] Martin Gardner wrote "Thousands of books about spiritualism have been written by believers, skeptics, and fence-sitters, but none demonstrates as convincingly as The Spiritualists the unbelievable ease with which persons of the highest intelligence can be flimflammed by the crudest of psychic frauds."[4]
Brandon lives in London with her husband Philip Steadman an art historian.[5] They had a daughter, Lily, born 1982.[6]
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