On the origin of timeHere is a new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs

'Keira & Me'

an ordeal that stretched over a decade and culminated in a period of hopeless darkness

fleeing to England as the Nazis swept to power

and of his astonishing escape

life growing up in a takeaway was far from peaceful

while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the US and around the world

From a 1977 candidate pool of 8

poetic side

industrialised magical inscriptions that make inanimate objects sentient

In this new collection

which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union

is a wonderful raconteur's tale about family