The Premonitions Bureau

Sam Knight

From Shelf: Official Indie Non-Fiction Bestsellers (week 15, 2023)

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 KEEFEWhat 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if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster?In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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