The Art of Travel

How to Think More About Sex: The School of Life

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Alain de Botton
• Narrated By David Thorpe

We don't think too much about sex; we're merely thinking about it in the wrong way.

So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we’re supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. This audiobook argues that 21st-century sex is ultimately fated to be a balancing act between love and desire, and adventure and commitment.

Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 23 mins)
• By A. C. Grayling
• Narrated By Derek Perkins

In his acclaimed columns in the London Times and Prospect, A. C. Grayling often responds to provocative questions posed by editors and readers. These questions serve as the basis for the essays in Thinking of Answers, among them searching examinations of the following: Are human beings especially prone to self-deception? If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality? Are human rights political? And more.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Alain De Botton
• Narrated By David Colacci

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us. Characteristically lucid, clever, and inventive, de Botton's "song for occupations" is a celebration and exploration of an aspect of life that is all too often ignored and a book that shines a revealing light on the essential meaning of work in our lives.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Alain de Botton
• Narrated By Kris Dyer

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world.

Essays in Love

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Alain de Botton
• Narrated By James Wilby

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton 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.