The Premonitions Bureau : 'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

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 GARNERWhat 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What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster?In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them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