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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Fascinating.' HILARY MANTEL
Terrific.' NEW SCIENTIST
Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES
''Stunning.'' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen?

A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination.

What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster?

In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them two highly gifted percipients'. Together, they predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning: that he was about to die.

Sam Knight''s book The Premonitions Bureau was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 07-05-2022



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'Strange and gripping . . . the most hardened sceptic can't fail to be electrified by the stories.' - Guardian
'Knight's writing is so lucid and wryly authoritative that it never fails to hold you . . . A brilliant book, by turns disarming, thought-provoking and spooky.' - Irish Independent

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 06/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9780571357574, 978-0571357574
      ISBN10: 0571357571

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

      Fascinating.' HILARY MANTEL
      Terrific.' NEW SCIENTIST
      Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES
      ''Stunning.'' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

      What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen?

      A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination.

      What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster?

      In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them two highly gifted percipients'. Together, they predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning: that he was about to die.

      Sam Knight''s book The Premonitions Bureau was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 07-05-2022



      Trade Review
      'Strange and gripping . . . the most hardened sceptic can't fail to be electrified by the stories.' - Guardian
      'Knight's writing is so lucid and wryly authoritative that it never fails to hold you . . . A brilliant book, by turns disarming, thought-provoking and spooky.' - Irish Independent

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