THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER







'Fascinating.' HILARY MANTEL



'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery.' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE



'Enthralling: a work of inspired, tireless and deeply compassionate curiosity.' HELEN GARNER





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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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



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. '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.