Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity - Tapa dura

A global superstar... Professor Rovelli is making the grammar of the universe accessible to a new generation (Channel 4 News)

Surely Rovelli deserves the title 'world's most inspiring physics teacher' (Daily Telegraph)

A top-flight theoretical physicist with a rock star reputation (BBC Radio 4 World at One)

The physicist transforming how we see the universe (Financial Times)

The new book by Carlo Rovelli is an utter joy (Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived)

The man who makes physics sexy... the new Hawking... His writing is luminous. By the time I had finished reading I was in serious awe of the author (David Aaronovitch The Times)

The latest thinking in physics is distilled in this primer... Why do you need yet another popularisation of theoretical physics? Because Rovelli writes with crystalline simplicity. And because he turns quantum physics into a coherent story, shaping it as a quest for a single, underlying "substratum" of reality - from Democritus's finite, indivisible atoms to Einstein (James McConnachie Sunday Times)

Rovelli writes with elegance, clarity and charm... A joy to read, as well as being an intellectual feast (Michael Brooks New Statesman)

Like all great thinkers, Rovelli has a talent for simplicity. His prose is lucid and poetic... It's not a scientific treatise. It's a paean to the wonder of the natural world... I scraped a C in my Physics O-level and haven't been near a physics textbook since. If I can understand - and even enjoy - Rovelli's book, then anyone can (William Cook Spectator)

A hugely engaging book, which leaves the head spinning... From evaporating black holes to quantum fields, Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide (Manjit Kumar Prospect)