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Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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Our books regularly hit the bestseller lists, and we have powered countless authors to household-name status. Driving past an unassuming village pub near the M1, not long ago, I was surprised to see a large board on the pavement outside on which someone had chalked – in big, rainbow letters – ‘PSYCHIC NITE. I know what you're thinking There is, says the US 'mind reader' Marc Salem, no such thing as reading minds.

Sequel volume in the autobiography of a medium who has been able to solve real life mysteries, murders and to predict events.Stokes's death coincided with the publication of Catholic author Ian Wilson's 1987 book, The After Death Experience, in which he presented a detailed exposé of her methods. The flats were arranged in dour, red-brick buildings with austere walkways and concrete staircases, overlooking a communal yard.

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In Voices Everywhere, Linda shines a light on her time working with Doris, right from the very early days when Doris was doing private readings in her Fulham flat, to filling the London Palladium and Barbican night after night, to subsequent fame outside the UK. uk/landing-page/little-brown-book-group/little-brown-book-group-company-information/">Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

Shakespeare appreciated the dramatic possibilities of these ideas 500 years ago, and we’re still lapping them up them today. And as I travelled around the country over the next months, I saw similar home-made notices sprouting up all over the place. Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded sceptics by the uncanny accuracy of her readings. She countered that her work was done for God, [4] and in accordance with the Bible's injunction to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4. These were clearly not slick, professionally-organised, corporate affairs; in fact, some looked distinctly amateurish.Down-river from the Festival Hall and the National Theatre where we found ourselves plonked, weeds sprouted from derelict sites, there were pot-holed streets, boarded-up buildings, abandoned warehouses, and old-fashioned tramps with string around their waists and multiple carrier bags in their fists. But, back then, behind the imposing exterior, Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions offered pretty basic accommodation.

Linda continued: “As time passed, I thought I was walking further and further away from the Doris Stokes phenomenon only to discover years later that I’d been going round in a circle. On more than one occasion, Doris had to cancel one of her sold-out meetings, and felt awful about having to do so. Copyright © Dark River 2019 Linda Dearsley has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this book. Doris Stokes, perhaps the greatest medium of recent times, astonished the world with the amazing accuracy of her psychic revelations. For instance, she was also genuinely surprised to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 4’s iconic Desert Island Discs.Doris turned out to live on the other side of town, behind Fulham Broadway Station in a big complex built just after World War I for disabled ex-servicemen. Yet, the following week, the board was out again, the words ‘PSYCHIC NITE’ now embellished with extravagant pink and blue chalk swirls.

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