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.