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Win advance read and review copies of The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight

Faber is excited to offer reading groups 10 advanced proof copies of the hugely immersive and fascinating bestselling The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight.

Described by the New Statesman as ‘a propulsive, atmospheric story, featuring a cast of strange characters’, this is is a perfect read for any fans of Kate Summerscale or Jon Ronson.

About The Premonitions Bureau

‘A venture into the strange world of coincidence and prediction . . . It’s a book hard to classify, but wholly fascinating: lively, nimble, its subject poised on the frontiers of the possible.’ Hilary Mantel

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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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

How to get involved

To be in with a chance of winning copies of Super-Infinite to read and review with your reading group please log in and complete the survey by Wednesday 22 March.

If successful, each of your members will be expected to share a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Waterstones or the Reading Groups for Everyone website within six weeks of receiving the books. Please only pitch if you can commit to this.

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