Author: The School of Life

A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young womans journey of self-discovery. This is a n...

A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself. The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a rec...

Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed...

A collection of humanitys most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unus...

An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isnt short of darkness, there could be few more urgent pr...

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer. This is a selection of the ver...

Many books that seek to change us aspire to make us richer or thinner. This new book wants to help us to be nicer: less irritable, more patient, re...

The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation ...

A 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 ...

We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we do not notice just how much damage is being done to us daily by the images we see and t...

One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when were feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift ...

So 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 - ...

A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements. Many books seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants t...

We dont think we hate cheap things but we frequently behave as if we rather do. Consider the pineapple. The pineapple was once such a status symb...

Its 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 ...

This is a book that should never fall into the hands of children for it is filled with the darkest truths about life that might unbearably depress...

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life speaks: that of emotions. It is an a...

Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-bei...

The 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: impat...

Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do t...

Dating might seem a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can la...

We live under a cheerful delusion that sex might nowadays be easy because we have been liberated from the hang-ups and taboos of days gone by. Yet ...

An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships. Our colleagues can be the sources of our greatest joys and triump...

An essential guide to help children become more aware of their emotional needs. This book examines a range of everyday topics that might give chil...

Many of us are quiet geniuses at the art of procrastination. We tend to feel so guilty about everything we havent done yet (and the hours frittered...

An average couple will have between thirty and fifty significant arguments a year - and yet were seldom taught very much about why they happen and ...

We 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 ex...

Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causin...

Choosing 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...

The difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touche...

When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They happened so l...

The dark truth is that it has become very hard to find anyone (and certainly anything) more interesting than ones smartphone. This perplexing and...

A 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...

A 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 ...

A 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....