Böcker av Mark Watson

'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard OsmanWhatever I now know about life - or think I know - I found out through failure, disappointment, mortification. I'm writing it all down as much to remind myself as for anyone else - but now you're here, I'd love you to stick around . . .Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he's died many times. Not just on stage - though he'll tell you about that - but in other ways, too. There's been the death of a childhood dream. The death of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died inside and nearly lost it all . . .Eye-opening, revealing and painfully funny, this is a book about mortification, failure and all the times life doesn't work out as planned. But it also wisely questions whether the things we strive for - recognition, success, the approval of others - are really the things that matter. It's a book about death that reminds us how to live.'Mark Watson makes the base metal of failure into comedy gold' Adam Kay

Monk Conspiracy is set during the French civil war where the rebels have their eyes on the monastery to use as forward staging post for further incursions into French territory. The priests and brothers are defending their home despite spy and rebel plots. They have potions and a supernatural edge to fight off the rebels.

Imagine being the only girl in a school full of boys...Missy loves football. As she and her friends get ready to start their final year of primary school, the class are excited to finally get to play 11-a-side football matches against other teams. But when a new committee in charge of school football in Scotland decides that Missy can no longer play with football with boys, Missy, her dad and her friends must embark on a series of upwards battles to prove to the committee that girls can play football alongside boys.A story that explores prejudices based on gender, family bereavement and the importance of football._________Mark Watson's second children's novel explores the difficulties that some still face across the world to access sport. He highlights some peoples' views of women in sport in the past and displays how it has changed through the modern era. A perfect novel for a school library; a class novel or for anybody with a passion for sport.

Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he's died. In fact, he's died loads of times. On stage. It's embarrassing. Excruciating. But dying on stage isn't the only death Mark's suffered. There's also been the death of his innocence. The death of that absolutely brilliant project that everyone told him was really amazing. And that time he died inside. In this memoir, he takes you behind the scenes of a life in comedy and beyond.

Howard York - self-made man and founder of London's extraordinary Hotel Alpha - is one of those people who makes you feel that anything is possible. He is idolized by his blind adopted son, Chas, and Graham, the inimitable concierge, whose lives revolve around the Alpha. But when two mysterious disappearances raise questions that no one seems willing to answer, Chas and Graham must ask themselves whether Howard's vision of the perfect hotel has been built on secrets as well as dreams . . .Captivating, brilliant and full of surprises, Hotel Alpha is an ingenious novel about the incidental and life-changing ways in which we connect with one another. You can discover more about the hotel and its inhabitants in 100 extra stories at www.hotelalphastories.com.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a third generation method for specifying, visualizing, and documenting an object-oriented system under development. This book provides an introduction to UML, overview of this powerful design notation, and teaches Java programmers to analyse and design object-oriented applications using the UML notation.

Junior creative Tim Callaghan can hardly believe his luck when he's flown out to Dubai to supervise the filming of an advert for an international charity. He is immediately entranced by the city - a futuristic environment unlike anywhere he's ever been before, with an almost uncanny level of customer service. Shimmering and seductive, it seems as though nothing bad could ever happen in Dubai. But when a crew member is found dead in in mysterious circumstances, Tim learns that if a place seems too good to be true, it probably is . . .

Rose is the fifth tallest woman in Britain. Their tumultuous, bizarre love affair plays out through a prisoner's correspondence with the heartbroken Alexandra. And as Andreas' peculiar tragedy unveils, Alexandra begins to find solitude in an uncanny world of lookalikes and murder.

Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practice in Chicago with a client list of thriving stars. But by concentrating on his rival Richard he is blind to the other factors which put both his life and the lives of others at risk...