The Big Hop

Praise for David Rooney:

'About Time is abundantly clever, with myriad fascinations on every page'

* Simon Winchester, New York Times *
'Fascinating ... it’s to Rooney’s credit that although he clearly knows a colossal amount about clocks, he wears his learning very lightly' * Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times *
'An utterly dazzling book' * Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps *
'A fascinating volume on what clocks say both to us and about us ... full of riches ... a valuable intellectual journey at a moment ripe for contemplation' * Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal *
'Startlingly original' * Literary Revi