Is Hawkings latest book, 'the Grand News', what Atheists have been waiting for?

I remember reading things similar to this back in the 1980s by Paul Davies, in a book "God and the New Physics" -- he wrote a number of books that were well grounded scientifically and interesting to read. I haven't read Hawkings' latest, but I wonder if it is in fact all that groundbreaking, or it is a popularization of things that have been discussed in theoretical physics and astrophysics circles for some time now.