Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour & 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 & reinvents the calendar Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime & a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time & our desire to measure it control it sell it film it perform it immortalise it & make it meaningful It has two simple intentions to tell some illuminating stories & to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts