Book review: Hawking’s humanity is kept alive in this sensitive portrait

While biographer Graham Farmelo clearly admires his subject and calls him 'Stephen' throughout, this is no hagiography
This sensitive but by no means starry-eyed portrait still leaves Professor Stephen Hawking's towering reputation largely intact. File picture: Andrew Parsons/PA

This sensitive but by no means starry-eyed portrait still leaves Professor Stephen Hawking's towering reputation largely intact. File picture: Andrew Parsons/PA

Sat, 10 Oct, 2026 - 01:00
Andrew Lynch

  • Hawking: His Life and Work
  • Graham Farmelo
  • John Murray, €24.99

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