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ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE 7 SECRETS OF HAPPINESS Ten years on, Gyles Brandreth has learnt yet more about happiness... featuring a new introduction and charming illustrations, this little book attempts to answer a big question: How can we be happy? 'Marvellous, brilliant, wonderful, best thing I've ever heard, transformational...' That was the response from a total stranger when Gyles Brandreth delivered the Happiness Lecture at Birmingham University. 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 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.

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

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Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and best known as a regular on ITV's This Morning and Radio 4's Just A Minute. On stage he has appeared as Malvolio, Lady Bracknell and in his own musical revue in London's West End. On TV he has featured in Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You?, Pointless, Countdown and Celebrity Gogglebox. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two acclaimed volumes of diaries, an autobiography, Odd Boy Out, and two best-selling royal biographies. His podcasts include Something Rhymes With Purple, all about words and language, which he presents with Susie Dent, and Rosebud, in which he talks to famous people about their early memories. He is married to writer and publisher Michele Brown and has three children, six grandchildren and a cat called Nala.

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