The Premonitions Bureau - A Sunday Times bestseller
Verlag | Faber & Faber |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 256 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,5 cm |
Gewicht | 215 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780571357574 |
Bestell-Nr | 57135757EA |
The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.
§'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel
'Terrific.' New Scientist
'Gripping.' Financial Times
'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed 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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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.
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Strange and gripping . . . the most hardened sceptic can't fail to be electrified by the stories. Guardian