The Premonitions Bureau
'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
$21.24
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2023
Summary
‘Fascinating.’ - Hilary Mantel
‘Terrific.’ - New Scientist
‘Gripping.’ - Financial Times
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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571357574 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571357571 |
| Author: | Sam Knight |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘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
Sam Knight
Sam Knight is a British journalist who has covered subjects such the plans for the death of the Queen, sandwiches and late capitalism, art fraud; 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 wildly 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.
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