My Brief History

Stephen Hawking [has] a brain of enviable vastness, seeing and understanding things that lie way beyond most of us… His modesty is engaging * Daily Mail *
Hawking writes movingly… we hear his voice radiating directly from the black hole of his motor neuron disease, without the amplification and elaboration supplied by the co-authors with whom he wrote his last few books * Financial Times *
A concise, gleaming portrait * Nature *
Powerful… [his] brevity makes for a bold picture * Guardian *
Read it for the personal nuggets… But above all, it’s worth reading for its message of hope * Mail on Sunday *
Charmingly modest… it’s appropriate that this most extraordinary of men should remain enigmatic * The Times *
Stephen Hawking has had to overcome extraordinary obstacles in his life… Where he is most admirable is in his attitude to his disability - on which he is stoicism personified * Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times *
His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understatement and good humour moving… We will never really know Hawking. But what we do know - that he achieved extraordinary success against extraordinary adversity - is quite enough. * New Scientist *
The book coherently appeals to readers who want a snapshot into Hawking’s inner life and readers eager to trace the evolution of his thinking. * Sunday Business Post (Dublin) *

Stephen Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world’s greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes- The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.

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