Takes readers on a journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport.

Takes the reader on a tour through the history and psychology of architecture and interior design. Looking at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers, this title examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, as well as offering philosophical insights.

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. This title heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, looking at the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.

Offers insights into things that range from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book explains why we really went in the first place - and suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

Provides a digest of consolations for many of our psychological ills.

Charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. This book includes a chapter on the anxieties of when and how to say 'I love you' and another chapter on the challenges of disagreeing with someone else's taste in shoes.

For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries.

Explores what Proust had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive. This book also contains the author's own commentary on Proust.

Considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes. It look at questions such as why do people disagree about taste? can beautiful surroundings make us good? Reflecting that architecture has the power to influence how we feel, this book suggests how we might learn to build better dwellings, in which we would stand a higher chance of happiness.

There are few more powerful desires than the wish to be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity and respect. We long for status and dread its opposite. This title asks where our worries about questions of status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them.

Tells you everything you wanted to know about Proust. Taking as its starting point the life of the celebrated French writer and eccentric, this book shows how your life can be improved via his work. This reading includes a 15-second precis of 7 volumes of the novel In Search Of Lost Time .

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 question of knowing one's partner in a relationship, the issue of power between people, and the link between love, sex and shopping.

This volume provides a new translation and the first single-volume edition of a neglected literary gem of French literature, found here with its companion-piece 'A Nocturnal Expedition around my Room'.

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. This book features the worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.

Presents a challenge to biographical norms by setting out to chart the life of someone unknown, intimate with their biographer, and still alive. The subject of the book is Isabel Rogers, a 25-year-old Londoner, and her biographer's approach to her life is complicated by their love affair.

Everything you always wanted to know about Marcel Proust but were afraid to ask. A witty biography of Proust which combines as a 'self-help' book with advice on How to Love Life, How to be a Good Friend, How to be Happy in Love at the same time giving the listener a strong insight into the life of Proust.