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A Novel
How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story ...
In a novel that explores the realities of "being in love," two young people meet on a plane to Paris and embark on a love affair based on what they pe...
The New York Times–bestselling author’s modern classic that “takes a conventional love story and textures it with philosophical ruminations” (...
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major l...
From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The Scho...
Sex, Shopping and the Novel
Looks at the psychology of men and women in love, as it portrays a modern relationship between Alice and Eric. Some of the themes explored include the...
Lessons from the School of Life
AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life This is a book about how to...
A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER One of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheis...
Weaving in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, the unnamed narrator charts the progress of his affair with Chloe; from lust, ...
Think more about sex by thinking about it in a different way. In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimat...
“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable hum...
from How Proust Can Change Your Life
Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the imp...
A User's Manual
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the position that news has achieved in our lives. The news is everywhere...
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Told by a former girlfriend that he lacks the necessary quality of empathy, the narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a biography of the next perso...
A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love...
‘It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to...
An Emotional Education
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Take some time to reflect and refocus this winter, with the essential guide on how to live wisely and well, no matter what...
A Heathrow Diary
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be in...
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 ...
The Munk Debates
"Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the...
Not a Novel
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Chan...
From the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
Renowned philosophers & authors Alain de Botton & John Armstrong explore the therapeutic potential of art, contextualise fifty eight individual or gro...
Alain de Botton – een van de grootste hedendaagse denkers - probeert in ‘Statusangst’ onze universele faalangst te begrijpen - en hoe we die ten...
In 2014, Art is Therapy by guest curators Alain de Botton and John Armstrong wanted to provoke you into rethinking some crucial assumptions about what...
From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative...
ROMAN. AUS D. ENGL. V. HEIDE STEINER
Recipes to Nourish & Inspire
A Guide to Greater Serenity, Ease, and Clarity
A collection of the essential emotional lessons we need in order to thrive....
A thought-provoking guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face - what is the meaning of life?...