<p><b>SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER<br><br>NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of <i>The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel </i>and<i> The School of Life<br></i><br>''A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live'' Jeanette Winterson, <i>The Times</i><br><br>''A beautiful, inspiring book... offering a glimpse of a more enlightened path'' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>''Smart, stimulating, sensitive. A timely and perceptive appreciation of how much wisdom is embodied in religious traditions and how we godless moderns might learn from it'' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>''There isn''t a page in this book that doesn''t contain a striking idea or a stimulating parallel'' <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br></b><b>Alain de Botton takes us one step further than Dawkins or Hitchens ventured - into a world of ideas beyond the God debate...</b><br><br>All