# Mortification by Mark Watson (Paperback)

**'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman**  
  
_Whatever 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**

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Phoenix
- **Type:** Biographies & Memoirs
- **Tags:** All Books, Biographies & Memoirs

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> Updated: 2026-10-04