The 7 Secrets of Happiness: An Optimist's Journey

Gyles Brandreth

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Research shows that happy people live up to ten years longer than unhappy people. But what is happiness? Who gets to be happy? And how do they achieve it?

Gyles Brandreth found the answers when he set out on a journey looking for happiness and ended up in the psychiatrist's chair - with Dr Anthony Clare. And in The 7 Secrets of Happiness he reveals that the secrets are simple, easy to remember, but challenging to achieve.

This is a book that won't simply enhance your life: it will extend it.

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Praise for The 7 Secrets of Happiness: An Optimist's Journey

  • Gyles Brandreth has access to the secrets of the human heart. - The Times

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Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, 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 having been 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. The founder of the National Scrabble Championships, his books about words and language include four best-sellers, The Joy of Lex, Word Play, Have You Eaten Grandma? and Dancing by the Light of the Moon. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two volumes of diaries and two acclaimed royal biographies. In 2020 he published The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes.

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