Filled with wisdom and practical help from one of the great thinkers of our time.

Psychiatrist and bestselling author Gordon Livingston offers a meditation on who best (and who best not) to love – and how best to love.

McGirr muses on the many benefits of sleep and makes acquaintance with some of the great sleepers and wakers of history.

Adopting Jean-Paul Sartre’s dictum, ‘Hell is other people’, Andrew Fuller takes us on a voyage through a rogues’ gallery of weird, nasty and not-so-loveable types. These are people whom we may have the misfortune to meet at breakfast, at work, at a family reunion, or even (horrors!) in bed at night. Tricky People profiles the whole scary range of ‘difficult’ types: back-stabbers, white-anters, blamers, whingers, bullies, tyrants, controllers, charmers, know-it-alls, perfectionists, competitors and the seriously self-obsessed. It offers imaginative yet practical ways to deal with these dangerous and frustrating creatures, and identifies the slippery techniques they employ to get their way.

A book about life, how to make the most of it and to how to find your balance when you are trying to be happy and fulfilled while working long days.