Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.com
Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining
* * The Sunday Times * *
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Stuffed with
fascinating material
* * Observer * *
A sort of museum between hard covers. Timekeepers is as good as pop
history gets
* * Sunday Express * *
Time well spent . . . Simon Garfield has made his name as an author
who can spin fascinating narratives out of subjects that seem, on
the face of it, narrow to the point of being dull
* * Financial Times * *
Scholarly but jokey, with a magpie's appetite for glittering
trivia, Garfield is as eager to amuse as to inform, and achieves
both
* * Telegraph * *
An eclectic collection of explorations of our relationships with
time . . . Very readable
* * The Times * *
Delightful
* * Sunday Telegraph * *
Delightful . . . Gloriously funny . . . Garfield has an astonishing
capacity for meticulous research and a wonderful ability to select
the best stories to entertain us
* * Daily Express * *
Engaging . . . Engrossing
* * Mail on Sunday * *
In this book, brilliant cultural historian Simon Garfield assembles
a host of intriguing characters who have tried to bend time to
their own rules, and questions how we came to be ruled by something
so arbitrary
* * Elle * *
Garfield's anecdotal, science-friendly book explores the tyranny of
time and our desire to control it
* * Saga * *
There could be no better guide than Simon Garfield for this journey
into time and its meaning for our lives. From the assembly line to
the French Revolution, he covers the quirks of the clock with
insight and wry enthusiasm. A riveting, educational read
*DANIEL PINK, author of Drive*
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