

Watson's renown as a successful novelist and pundit have seen him billed in The New Spectator as 'a Will Self with dignity', and in 2030 Watson won his second Booker prize for his magnum opus, Tiny Alan.
A keen mountaineer, Watson likes to mix writing with raising money for charity and in 2027 he became the first Briton to climb Scarfell Pike without trying. Mark claims to have the largest collection of 5 pence pieces in the northern hemisphere. He lives with cats.