A Light-hearted Look at Murder

Young stand-up comedian Mark Watson takes us on a clever romp through the dubious world of the lookalike business, where no one is as they seem.

Packed with brilliant observations and sharp one-liners, but it is also a surprising look at the nuts and bolts of comedy

Eloquence and wit ...shine from this gently peculiar story ... an absolute gem

Watson is a gifted comic writer unafraid to juggle material many comic writers wouldn't touch... an intelligent, humane and desperately funny tale

Since he burst on to the comedy scene in his early twenties, Mark Watson has won numerous awards for his stand-up routines and been nominated for a Perrier and a South Bank Award. He has also made comedy history at the Edinburgh Festival by performing for 24 hours, solo and without a break. His first novel, Bullet Points, was published in 2004. Mark Watson lives in London.

Andreas is a German post-grad who looks like Hitler. 
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.

Mark Watson

He's a fledgling Nabokov for the era of Big Brother

Bullet Points is unnervingly accomplished. Expect to hear plenty more about him

This is an extremely well plotted novel with a surprisingly twist in the tale and augurs great things for the future

Fresh and imaginative... with wonderful flashes of humour. This is a clever and unusual book, and Watson is to be commended

Bullet Points is a fluent performance, an extremely competent first novel

Many readers will be amazed that Watson has written such an accomplished debut straight out of university, but his age is irrelevant; this is simply a great novel, full stop

A gripping, knowing and desperately sad mock memoir-provincial life hasn't been this well chronicled since Jonathan Coe. Bullet Points stays, appropriately, in the mind for some time

Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. By arranging their histories like the index entries in a biography, the sequences of cause and effect that have led to their particular neuroses are cunningly revealed. 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...

Mark Watson

Praise for Bullet Points

He's a fledgling Nabokov for the era of Big Brother

Bullet Points is unnervingly accomplished. Expect to hear plenty more about him

This is an extremely well plotted novel with a surprisingly twist in the tale and augurs great things for the future

He's a fledgling Nabokov for the era of Big Brother

Bullet Points is unnervingly accomplished. Expect to hear plenty more about him

This is an extremely well plotted novel with a surprisingly twist in the tale and augurs great things for the future

He's a fledgling Nabokov for the era of Big Brother

Bullet Points is unnervingly accomplished. Expect to hear plenty more about him

This is an extremely well plotted novel with a surprisingly twist in the tale and augurs great things for the future

Books by Mark Watson

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