"It's a book review -- doesn't really explain what the physicist is arguing in any meaningful sense."

Indeed, the review ends with this:

"Mr Vedral makes a persuasive argument for a third option: information can be created out of nothing."

That's a remarkable claim, and the review says zip about how it is presented. It seems that it would also be the key concept of the book, making this a pretty lame review.

Well it's not really remarkable at all, the argument is basically that information and entropy are mathematically equivalent and so information like entropy spontaneously increases.

Information and entropy are absolutely not equivalent; entropy describes the upper bound on information content, but says little about the actual information contained in a coding. The statement that information is spontaeously created isn't based in any physics I know of.

How does the (conventional) big bang theory fit into that? At first glance it seems like valid evidence for spontaneous creation of information.