Mark Stuckey has repaired hundreds of items and countless broken hearts as the mechanical maestro of the BBC’s popular factual entertainment show, The Repair Shop. What the programme’s millions of viewers don’t know is that the enigmatic engineer has kept an incredible secret…

For the first time, Mark reveals the alter ego he used to perform as a magician on television, before working on classic shows like Red Dwarf and developing original projects for Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson and Carry On producer Peter Rogers.

From his gadget-filled garden workshop, Mark shares the skills he has learned from a lifetime of technological tinkering. With each item he saves from the scrapheap, Mark is transported back to a defining moment in his story.

Mark journals his nomadic and rebellious childhood, navigating his father’s gambling and his mother’s alcoholism. He reflects philosophically on his first marriage collapsing and how he eventually found his soulmate in the most unusual of places: building nuclear weapons systems.

Injected with his trademark humour, honesty and humanity, Bright Spark is Mark’s deeply personal and candid memoir, which celebrates how we can all learn to do anything and make the most of life because, frankly, it’s too ruddy short.