Life: A User’s Manual

Julian Baggini (Author) Julian Baggini’s books include A Short History of Truth, How the World Thinks, Freedom Regained, The Ego Trick, What’s It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life and the best-selling The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten. He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He was the co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine.Antonia Macaro (Author) Antonia Macaro is an existential psychotherapist, author of More than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age, Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy and co-author of The Shrink and the Sage. She has many years’ clinical experience in the field of addictive behaviours. Antonia has a degree in Oriental Studies and an MA in Philosophy, and was part of the UK’s philosophical counselling movement from its early days.

An absolute joy ... This fascinating book is as close as you'll get to hiring history's wisest minds as your personal life advisers