Online DiscoveReads author event with Sunday Times bestselling writer Sam Knight

Join us for an online author talk with Sunday Times bestselling writer Sam Knight, as part of our DiscoveReads project! Sam will be talking to us about his career so far and his debut non-fiction book, The Premonitions Bureau, which is one of this year's featured DiscoveReads titles.

This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance.

About The The Premonitions Bureau:

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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea.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

About Sam Knight:

Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Harper's and Grantland. The Premonitions Bureau is his first book and is a Sunday Times bestseller, chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer, Telegraph, Irish Times, Stylist and iPaper.

About DiscoveReads:

DiscoveReads is our programme to help you find new and exciting reads and get you talking about books. With a selection of five great books recommended by readers, DiscoveReads is a unique way to take your reading to new places. All you need is your library card and an open mind!

Find out more about our DiscoveReads programme.