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The Premonitions Bureau, Sam Knight

The Premonitions Bureau, Sam Knight

2023

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‘Fascinating.’ Hilary Mantel

‘Terrific.’ New Scientist

‘Gripping.’ Financial Times

''Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed with haunting atmosphere.'' 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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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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