The Order of Time

Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book… Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist – John Banville * Irish Times *Wonderful… Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is – Philip Pullman * Guardian *

Full of staggering revelations… I could (and will) read and think about such things again and again until they begin to sink in

– Maggie Nelson * New York Times *This book has been a kind of bible for me. When life feels strange, Rovelli’s books remind me that there is beauty in the strangeness. The Order of Time is one of those books that I will always go back to – Johny PittsExtraordinary… you should read it – Nick Hornby * Believer *Brings the most difficult ideas alive in clear, appealing language. It is as close as I’ve come to a physics lesson that almost suggests the meaning of life – Rory StewartMeet the new Stephen Hawking… I’ve never seen special relativity explained so well, never visualised it less fuzzily, never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies – James McConnachie * Sunday Times *A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time – Charlotte Higgins * Guardian *Enlightening… gives poetic voice to the common human experience of moving through time, while simultaneously leaving the reader much more equipped to understand how exactly that happens… A resounding affirmation of the humanity behind science * Time magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s *I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist… Everybody should read this book – Es Devlin