My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: The inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him 'Einstein', the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a black hole and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of academia. Stephen Hawking will discuss his unorthodox childhood, his diagnosis with motor neurone disease as a 21 year old Ph.D. student, his pioneering work on quantum cosmology, his two marriages and the controversial circumstances surrounding their breakdown. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs from his childhood and schooldays, My Brief History will give readers a concise, witty and candid account of the life of this intensely private and world changing man, in his own words. My Brief History is the first that Hawking has written entirely on his own, using a device that translates the movement of the cheek muscle under his eye, resulting in his most personal book to date.

Key Features:

A very personal autobiography, written solely by Hawking using a device that translates the movement of the cheek muscle under his eye.
Accompanied by numerous personal, many previously unseen, photographs integrated into an attractive, small-format hardback - a perfect gift.
The documentary-style film Hawking, similarly personal and closely mirroring the book, will be screened on 20th Sept 2013 at the Cambridge Film Festival with Stephen and national media in full attendance and beamed by satellite to 30 other UK cinemas simultaneously. The following week it will be releases on iTunes and as a DVD and also broadcast later in December on Channel 4.