The School of Life: An Emotional Education, Alain de BottonTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Give the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome

In Homo Deus

It’s a book you’ll want to buy for your best friends so you can read passages aloud to them

a battlefield boast

and finds he is not alone

David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial

and make it something beautiful” (People)

the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh

The Happiness Project describes one person’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment

ANOTHER PATIENT

Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane

a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle

Stephen King