The School of Life
£15.00A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing.
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Four Thousand Weeks
£10.99The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem.
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Simple Pleasures
£8.99From the delight of seeing the first blossom of spring to the pleasure of planting a seed, this book reminds us just how much happiness can be found in the smallest things. A gift book balm for the soul in our increasingly screen-based, disconnected world and a celebration of the little things that make life worth living. The 100 everyday things highlighted as simple pleasures range from baking bread and the feel of fresh sheets, to climbing a hill, writing a letter, daydreaming, people watching, and enjoying the first coffee of the day. Offering the perfect antidote to the stresses and demands of modern life, this tender and uplifting book shows us a way to get more from less and be grateful for what we have.
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The Heartbeat of Trees
£9.99FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER,THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
‘A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science ? Strongly encourages tree hugging for our own, human sake’ Guardian Summer Reads 2021
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Calm
£9.99A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.
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Relationships
£9.99A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last.
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The Comfort Book
£9.99‘The Comfort Book’ is a collection of little islands of hope. It gathers consolations and stories that give new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. Matt Haig’s mix of philosophy, memoir and self-reflection builds on the wisdom of philosophers and survivors through the ages, from Marcus Aurelius to Nellie Bly, Emily Dickinson to James Baldwin. This is the book to pick up when you need the wisdom of a friend, the comfort of a hug or just to celebrate the messy miracle of being alive.
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On Failure
£15.00A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well.
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Sedated
£10.99In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity. Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain. Urgent and persuasive, this book systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business – and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
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How to Live, What to Do
£9.99Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment, but it also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of ourselves we may not have seen or understood. From jealousy to grief, fierce love to deep hatred, our inner lives become both stranger and more familiar when we explore them through fiction. Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory, delves deep into the inner lives of the most memorable and vivid characters in literature. His analysis of figures such as Jay Gatsby and Mrs Dalloway offers insights into the greatest questions about the human experience, ones that we can all learn from.
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A Simpler Life
£15.00Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.
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Stolen Focus
£20.00Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you – including your children. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And – most importantly – how do we get it back? In ‘Stolen Focus’, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari sets out on a global investigative journey into our shortening attention spans.