The Premonitions Bureau
A Sunday Times bestseller
Published on 6. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-571-35757-4 (ISBN)
Description
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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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
'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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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
Reviews / Votes
'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
More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35757-4 (9780571357574)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sam Knight is a British journalist who has covered subjects such the plans for the death of the Queen, sandwiches, art fraud and late capitalism; plus profiles of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Jeremy Corbyn, and Theresa May. His work for the Long Read section of the Guardian and for The New Yorker has become influential and widely shared. 'London Bridge is Down', published in 2017, was viewed 4 million times and remains the most popular Guardian long read ever published. Knight, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2018, has won two Foreign Press Association awards and was shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for political writing.