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The School of Life: On Relationships: learning how to love by The School of Life
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last. Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably... -
Affairs by The School of Life
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.04Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending... -
On Confidence by The School of Life
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62The difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This is a guidebook to what... -
The School of Life: On Calm: The harmony and serenity we crave by The School of Life
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations. Almost all of us wish we could be calmer; it is one of the distinctive longings of... -
Self-Knowledge by The School of Life
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.01In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: 'Know yourself'. Self-knowledge matters so much because it is... -
What is Psychotherapy? by The School of Life
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.52Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere... -
How to Travel by The School of Life
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and... -
The School of Life: Collected Essays: 15th Anniversary Edition by The School of Life 9781915087102
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular and essential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused... -
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.53This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly... -
The School of Life - Stay or Leave: How to remain in, or end, your relationship by The School of Life 9781915087508
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront. What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed... -
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: what can calm, reassure and console by The School of Life
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.29We accept without shame that most organs in our bodies might at some point develop problems - and could need a bit of help. We should not make an exception of our minds. Our lives are so complicated... -
Schooled for Life by Alexis Lykiard 9781910323410
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How to Find Love by The School of Life
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.90Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make. The cost of repeated failure is immense. And yet we are often so alone with the search. Partners used to... -
The Good Enough Parent by The School of Life
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.29Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children's... -
The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912891450Author Alain de BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
On Failure: How to Succeed at Defeat by The School of Life
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.58A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the... -
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The School of Life: Small Pleasures - what makes life truly valuable by The School of Life 9781915087034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.18So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring... -
Self-Knowledge in 40 Images by The School of Life 9781915087423
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.53When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, ‘To know ourselves.’ The advice has never been bettered. Without... -
Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind by The School of Life
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being. Far more than we tend to realise, we're all - in private - deeply anxious. There is so much that... -
On Family: the joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life 9781915087416
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.99Families are a mystery. Is everyone’s as complicated as ours? Is there such a thing as a ‘normal’ one? We generally only get to see the polished exteriors and are left to imagine what might be going... -
How to Survive the Modern World by The School of Life
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.61A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys,... -
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone... -
On Self-hatred: learning to like oneself by The School of Life
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We are... -
A Therapeutic Atlas: destinations to inspire and enchant by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation or rich in memory. This is an atlas that gathers... -
Art Against Despair: pictures to battle sorrow and restore hope by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.67One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when we're feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift our spirits, remind us of what we love and return... -
What They Forgot to Teach You in School by The School of Life
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the... -
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by The School of Life
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62It's one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be... -
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59THE 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... -
The School of Life. by Anna Mary Howitt Watts 9781241398811
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Insomnia: A Guide to and Consolation for the Restless Early Hours by The School of Life
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Not being able to sleep is deeply frightening. We panic about our ability to cope with the demands of the next day; we panic that we are panicking; the possibility of sleep recedes ever further as... -
The Heart of a True Hero: The School of Life by Sisay Ketama 9781779623027
Booksplease Price: £12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779623027Author Sisay KetamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint -
Know Yourself: A path to self-knowledge The School of Life 9781916753457
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43We may spend years mastering the external world - acquiring degrees, advancing careers, building families - without ever turning inwards to make sense of the person orchestrating it all: ourselves. ... -
Aspects of Love: Reflections on the art of loving The School of Life 9781916753662
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.84A modern, emotionally intelligent guide to love - Explores why romantic relationships bring both profound joy and deep suffering and why this tension is unavoidable. Essay-led, accessible and... -
A More Loving World: how to increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever before but it is - arguably - also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and... -
Confidence in 40 Images: The Art of Self-belief by The School of Life
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.00An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between success and failure often comes down to an... -
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet too often this inborn... -
No-tech Fun: 80 Alternatives to Screen Time by The School of Life
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Whether we're big or small, it can be hard to get away from our screens. Most children spend between five and seven hours a day looking at some form of screen - and most grown-ups spend twice as much... -
The Book of Me: A Children's Journal of Self-Knowledge by The School of Life
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.59Children love to explore, born with a boundless desire to understand the world around them. While most of the outside world has already been mapped, there's a whole other world that has yet to be... -
An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A-Z by The School of Life 9781912891245
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.99Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming... -
Thinking and Eating: Recipes to Nourish and Inspire by The School of Life 9781912891023
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.47It is a daily undertaking - a morning shot of coffee, an absentminded sandwich at your desk, a hastily assembled dinner with the remnants from the fridge... With its every day ubiquity we can make...