Premonitions Bureau

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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publication date: 06/04/2023