10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story

'An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation. This is a book that will help people' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, Love

After having a nationally televised panic attack, news anchor DAN HARRIS knew he had to make some changes. His on-air meltdown helped spark a strange, unplanned odyssey, which took him from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the bizarre fringes of the American spiritual scene, meeting a host of famous names along the way. A life-long sceptic, Dan started his search deeply suspicious of self-help solutions until, to his vast surprise, he stumbled an effective way to manage the relentless, impossible-to-satisfy voice in his head once and for all: meditation.

'10% HAPPIER is hands down the best book on meditation for the uninitiated, the sceptical, or the merely curious. Part confessional, part investigative journalism, 10% HAPPIER is 100% engrossing' DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus

'A sceptic's guide to meditation. With great humour he goes into it kicking and resisting and ends up embracing mindfulness and explaining it brilliantly, while never losing that humour or becoming part of the 'socks and sandals' brigade - I loved it' RUBY WAX, author of Sane New World

'A wonderful book and excellent advice' ANDY PUDDICOMBE, founder of Headspace