Alain de Botton
The Art Of Travel
$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated w... Buy or find out more →
Religion For Atheists: A Non Believer's Guide To The Uses Of Religion
$35.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
WHAT IF RELIGIOUS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supe... Buy or find out more →
The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work
$22.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
- Why do so many of us love or hate our work?
- How has it come to dominate our lives?
- And what should we do about it?
Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives... Buy or find out more →
A Week At The Airport
$24.99 – Paperback book / Profile
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport.
In the summer of 2009, bestselling author Alain de Botton will be given unprecedented access to wander around Heathrow, one of the ... Buy or find out more →
Romantic Movement
$32.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
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The Architecture Of Happiness
$39.95$17.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
What makes a house beautiful? Is it serious to spend your time thinking about home decoration? Why do people disagree about taste? And can buildings make us happy? In "The Architecture of Happiness", Alain de Botton tack... Buy or find out more →
The Architecture Of Happiness
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their ... Buy or find out more →
Kiss And Tell
$21.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
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The Consolations Of Philosophy
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenh... Buy or find out more →
Consolations Of Philosophy
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Mo... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Travel
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated w... Buy or find out more →
Essays In Love
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story.
Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconcil... Buy or find out more →
The Architecture Of Happiness
$24.95 – Compact disc / Penguin
AUDIO BOOK In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight, considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can be... Buy or find out more →
The Pleasures and Sorrows Of Work
$45.00$0.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
We spend most of our waking lives at work — in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us.
Equally intrigued by wor... Buy or find out more →
How Proust Can Change Your Life
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
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Status Anxiety
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Video
Rating:PG
This is a DVD about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets
mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about
whether we're judged a success or failure, a winner or a loser.
This DVD is a... Buy or find out more →
Status Anxiety
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering from status anxiety?
We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffe... Buy or find out more →
On Love: A Novel
$19.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a ParisLondon flight, and by the time they've reach... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Travel
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Dvd
Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams e tragi-comic disappointments are well-known: the disorientation, the mid-afternoon despair, the... Buy or find out more →