The familiar feel of a favourite pullover. s Laughter with your friends. Oh, and a stiff upper lip. How YOU can join me on Happiness Mountain in.

It's hard to imagine Britain's most effervescent broadcaster bereft of joie de vivre but, as Gyles Brandreth movingly explained in yesterday's Daily Mail, a string of deaths of those closest to him sparked his search for and eventual formulation of his Seven Secrets Of Happiness. An eponymous book followed, which he has now updated to help readers navigate the psychologically fraught social media age - the key to which might be keeping a stiff upper lip, he says? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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