A review by moscat
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight

2.0

This book is a mess. The Premonitions Bureau is a cool title but not really what the book seems to be about. Structurally it's hard to work out what it's trying to say, we hop from "this plane crash matches that prediction if you squint a bit and treat the information very generously" to "here's a tangent about quantum physics" to "here's a foot and mouth outbreak" and the throughline is not super apparent.

Overall it's far too credulous and I'm not wholly sure what the book is trying to say. It feels like there are nuggets in here, certainly a long form article or two, but as a book it falls well short.