'A riveting exploration of a 60s psychiatrist's nationwide search for people who can see into the future to predict catastrophes.' - i News 'Filled with jewels of journalistic detail . a real achievement.' - Prospect 'For the ultimate poolside experience you need to pocket yourself the punchiest of the season's page-turners. The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight recounts the true story of a 1960s maverick psychiatrist who researches whether or not somepeople can predict the future.' - GQ 'An absorbing and thought-provoking book.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Showcases the gifts that make [Knight] so endlessly readable. A richly researched feat of compression .

rivet[ing].' - Observer BOOK OF THE DAY 'Strange and gripping.' - Guardian 'An elegant and illuminating work of cultural history.' - TLS 'Knight shows a journalistic flair for the little details that buff up a story and make it shine.' - Times 'Knight combines a flair for American narrative non-fiction in the tradition of David Grann, Janet Malcolm and Joan Didion, with an absurdist lens on British life . his gin-clear prose . seems to have the freedom of fiction.' - Sunday Times 'An entertaining study of the mind and the human quest for control .

powerful.' - Financial Times 'It is a story both elegant and eccentric, cleanly capturing that brief moment in the 1960s when extrasensory perception verged on mainstream acceptance. It is also quietly terrifying, a reminder that even those who can see the future have no hope of getting out of its way.' - New York Times 'Terrific . a compelling, beautifully written book.' - New Scientist 'Knight tells this fascinating story with his typically enjoyable combination of fastidious research and an ear for the absurd.' - Esquire The Best Books of 2022 'Tells the fascinating story of British psychiatrist John Barker who in 1966 set up a network of hundreds of correspondents to investigate those strange, tingling sensations of foreboding that we all get from time to time.' - Refinery 29 's The Books We're Picking Up This May.