Joel Gotler is CEO of Intellectual Property Group, a literary management company representing some of the world’s best-selling authors. We used to sing around the piano as a family twice a week and there was a picture on it of my mother’s cousin, a commander in the Australian navy. I was born in Vienna in 1930, but after a few years things got a bit difficult, because we were Jews. I was bought up on a farm in Chester and even though my degree was in agriculture, I could see that was not going to be for me so I changed my tack completely and went on to instructing because I love motoring.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. For me, there is nothing better than sitting with people, enjoying their company in a lovely motor vehicle on a clear open road and watching them develop as a driver. In her regular contributions to political and news programmes, including The One Show , she especially advocates protecting vulnerable people and growing old ungracefully. When you lose people that matter so much to you, you realise that loneliness is actually about loss. She is a trustee of the NSPCC, a patron for 19 charities and has a damehood for services to children and older people.in this life-affirming book, she looks back from her ninth decade, and shares her most significant memories, from meeting Princess Diana to creating a national outrage with a short film about a driving dog, and reflects with candour and humour on the lessons she's learnt, revealing the hints, hacks and personal philosophies that have been her secrets of surviving almost everything. She is also a reality TV favourite with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, First Dates, and I’m a Celebrity. Lotte began her writing career age 70 and has since written more than 20 children’s books, including the best-selling Lotte’s War. Rantzen, 82, first announced her diagnosis in January, before revealing it had progressed to stage four in May this year.

Rantzen is best known for being the presenter of the BBC’s That’s Life, a topical entertainment show, from 1973 to 1994.

ects with candour and humour on the life lessons she's learned, revealing the hints, hacks and personal philosophies that have been her secrets to surviving almost everything. I’ve had all sorts of luck; luck to have parents who had dreams for me, but didn’t set punishingly high standards. An evangelical non-smoker”, Rantzen was shocked to discover she had lung cancer and later learned it was an extremely rare kind that most commonly attacks young Asian women. Elizabeth hit the headlines at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival when photos of her dancing with fellow carnival goers in the pouring rain went viral.