The Premonitions Bureau
A Sunday Times bestseller
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:6th Apr '23
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The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.
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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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
'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
ISBN: 9780571357574
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 215g
256 pages
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