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A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Stuffed with fascinating material
A sort of museum between hard covers. Timekeepers is as good as pop history gets
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
Scholarly but jokey, with a magpie's appetite for glittering trivia, Garfield is as eager to amuse as to inform, and achieves both
An eclectic collection of explorations of our relationships with time . . . Very readable
Delightful
Delightful . . . Gloriously funny . . . Garfield has an astonishing capacity for meticulous research and a wonderful ability to select the best stories to entertain us
Engaging . . . Engrossing
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
Garfield's anecdotal, science-friendly book explores the tyranny of time and our desire to control it
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
Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Stuffed with fascinating material
A sort of museum between hard covers. Timekeepers is as good as pop history gets
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
Scholarly but jokey, with a magpie's appetite for glittering trivia, Garfield is as eager to amuse as to inform, and achieves both
An eclectic collection of explorations of our relationships with time . . . Very readable
Delightful
Delightful . . . Gloriously funny . . . Garfield has an astonishing capacity for meticulous research and a wonderful ability to select the best stories to entertain us
Engaging . . . Engrossing
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
Garfield's anecdotal, science-friendly book explores the tyranny of time and our desire to control it
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
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 Award.
simongarfield.com