Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours.

The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.

Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningfulIt has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.

Format Häftad Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2017-07-06 ISBN 9781782113218