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The Premonitions Bureau
- Author
- Sam Knight
- Narrator
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 3 May 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 2.0 (1 review)
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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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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
User Reviews
Book 2.0
Narration 5.0
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2.0 5.0
I’m not sure if this wanted to be a “history & origins of the bureau” or a “high shock value asylum stories” book. I didn’t think it was good at either tbh.
hyperbooktivity 2023-04-25
Details
- Author
- Sam Knight
- Narrator
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duration
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9780571357598
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- History: specific events and topics, History of ideas
- Rating
- 2.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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 In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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
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