The Premonitions Bureau

'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel

Terrific.' New Scientist

Gripping.' Financial Times

'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffused with haunting atmosphere.' Patrick Radden Keefe


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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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