Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

Looking at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics, this book reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries.

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview -…

In this witty, innovative novel of a modern relationship, de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature…

De Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that readers can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion–without having to believe in any of it. He suggests that rather than…

The bestselling author of The Consolation of Philosophy addresses an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: what others think of us. With the help of philosophers, artists and…

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback

Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on…