Premonitions Bureau

A Sunday Times bestseller

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster?In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-06
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt215 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagFaber & Faber
ISBN9780571357574

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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. His work for the Long Read section of the Guardian and for The New Yorker has become influential and widely 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.