A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

'Marvellous, brilliant, wonderful, best thing I've ever heard, transformational...' Grace Surman

That was the response from a total stranger when Gyles Brandreth delivered the Happiness Lecture at Birmingham University in June 2013. Someone else in the thousand-strong audience tweeted: 'The 7 Secrets of Happiness are amazing. Thank you Gyles Brandreth, wherever you are.'

Well, Gyles Brandreth is here now with those 7 Secrets of Happiness. The secrets are simple rules, easy to remember, but challenging to achieve. Gyles Brandreth found them when he set out on a journey looking for happiness and ended up in the psychiatrist's chair - with Dr Anthony Clare.

What is happiness? Who gets to be happy? And how? These are the big questions that Gyles Brandreth aims to answer in this little book. Research (from Manchester University and University College, London) shows that happy people live up to ten years longer than unhappy people. This is a book that won't simply enhance your life: it will extend it.

About the Author

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and probably best known these days as a reporter on BBC1's The One Show and as a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute. On TV he has featured on Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101, Countdown, and This is Your Life. As a journalist he writes for the Telegraph and Daily Mail and is a columnist for The Oldie.

He is the author of many bestselling books including an acclaimed childhood memoir, Odd Boy Out, as well nine detective novels (among them The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries), biographies (notably Philip: The Final Portrait) and three other recent bestsellers: The 7 Secrets of Happiness, Have You Eaten Grandma?and Dancing by the Light of the Moon.

Reviews
Gyles Brandreth has access to the secrets of the human heart. * The Times *
Gyles Brandreth has access to the secrets of the human heart.' * The Times *
Marvellous, brilliant, wonderful, best thing I've ever heard, transformational...'



Book Information
ISBN 9781780722047
Author Gyles Brandreth
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Short Books Ltd
Publisher Short Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 111g
Dimensions(mm) 184mm * 128mm * 10mm