Books by The School of Life

How to Find Love explains why we have the 'types' we do - and how our early experiences give us scripts of how and whom we can love. The book provides a crucial set of ideas to help us make safer, more imaginative and more effective choices in love.

"In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so much to offer us; why there are still so many reasons to be hopeful. The book is an eclectic collection of anecdotes and arguments, vibrantly illustrated with artworks and photography, that remind us why we should remain hopeful when all else fails. Across a series of short essays, we learn why we still have the right to feel purposeful and buoyant despite everything that is challenging: because there is still so much more to discover, because we can delight in summer days and the light of dawn, and because we don't require perfection for things to feel good enough. In a tone that avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality and cynicism, the book urges us to reconnect with our more resilient selves, bidding us to recover faith in what is still possible. At points funny and always encouraging and kind, here is an ideal friend to guide us back to courage and delight"--Publisher's description.

"Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It's because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives and suffer from anxiety and despair. This is a book that, with immense compassion and fellow feeling, investigates the phenomenon of self-hatred while giving pragmatic advice on how to overcome it. It asks where the feeling comes from, what it makes us do and how we might become kinder and more compassionate towards ourselves. We have probably spent far too much of our lives disliking ourselves and attacking everything we say, do or feel, while not even realising what we're up to. It's time to overcome our masochism and move towards a more self-forgiving and accepting stance. The School of Life: On Self Hatred is a guide to the more compassionate and gentle relationship we should have had with ourselves from the start, and can all achieve now"--Publisher's description.

A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.

A reassuring guide to navigating the challenges of modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.

An inspiring selection of 100 images offering us hope and comfort, reminding us that we are not alone in our sorrow.

A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing.

A book to encourage compassion and forgiveness, showing us how we can work towards a better and kinder world.

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.

An essential guide to encourage children to explore, appreciate and benefit from the natural world around them.

A collection of 80 imaginative games and activities designed to engage and entertain without a screen.

Twenty scenarios explaining how to gently deliver a range of life's most difficult messages while causing minimal harm.

An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships, offering a series of lessons on workplace psychology. The result is nothing less than a more profitable, harmonious and happier organisations.

An essential guide to help children become more aware of their emotional needs, this book examines a range of everyday topics that might give children's minds difficulties.

This essential guide explores how etiquette is defined by consideration and respect, while putting good manners back at the centre of our priorities.

A thoughtful exploration of the complex motivations and emotions behindaffairs.

This book examines psychotherapy: what the needs are in all of us to which it caters; the methods by which it addresses these needs - and what the outcome of a therapeutic intervention could ideally be. It reflects the School of Life's belief that psychotherapy is the greatest step we can take towards self-understanding and fulfilment.