Join The School of Life at Waterstones Birmingham for a conversational evening around their new title, A More Loving World, hosted by Sarah Stein Lubrano.

The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever before but it is – arguably – also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness are rife, while forgiveness, tolerance and sympathetic good humour can be in short supply.

This is a book that rallies us to remember how much we all long for, and depend on love: how much we need people to forgive us for our errors, how much everyone deserves to be treated with consideration and imagination and how being truly civilised means extending patience and kindness to all those we have to deal with, even, and especially, those who don’t naturally appeal to us.A More Loving World by The School of Life (published May 5th) reminds us of our better natures and mobilises us to fight for the kinder, more loving world we essentially long for at heart.

The School of Life is a global organisation helping people lead more fulfilled lives. The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton.

Sarah Stein Lubrano began work at The School of Life helping create some of the earliest YouTube videos. She has now found a natural home in our content team, where she combines her love of intellectual ideas, emotional wisdom, and creative media. Sarah does research, writing, and design for everything from films to apps to interactive workshops. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge University.