David Wishart

David Wishart (born 1952) is a Scottish author.

David Wishart on Authors' Reading Month in 2014, Wrocław, Poland

Life and work

Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Greek and Latin at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school. He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives in Carnoustie. He is married to Rona Wishart, formerly head of Support for Learning at St Leonards School in St. Andrews but now retired, and has two children and four grandchildren. He does not play golf but spends a great deal of his non-writing time walking. (Source: Author.)

Most of his novels share the same protagonist, Marcus Corvinus. Spurning the conventional career path of a military posting via a civil service post to an elected post and the Senate, Wishart's hero develops a taste for investigating crimes of a particularly sensitive nature, thereby allowing the author to introduce numerous historical figures and to continue to mine a rich seam of Imperial Roman intrigue. Plots are typically complex, and give us a fair taste of the treacherous nature of Roman politics in the immediate post-Republican era. Wishart's signature is his mix of accurate historical detail and racy modern dialogue; Corvinus talks like a Raymond Chandler hero. He is also developing an interesting personality and a social conscience somewhat at odds with his high birth.

Bibliography

Marcus Corvinus series

  1. Ovid (1995)
  2. Germanicus (1997)
  3. Sejanus (1998)
  4. The Lydian Baker (1998)
  5. Old Bones (2000)
  6. Last Rites (2001)
  7. White Murder (2002)
  8. A Vote for Murder (2003)
  9. Parthian Shot (2004)
  10. Food for the Fishes (2005)
  11. In at the Death (2007)
  12. Illegally Dead (2008)
  13. Bodies Politic (2010)
  14. No Cause For Concern (2012)
  15. Solid Citizens (2013)
  16. Finished Business (2014)
  17. Trade Secrets (2015)
  18. Foreign Bodies (2016)
  19. Family Commitments (2017)
  20. Going Back (2018)

Angus Books

  1. Hexagon (2011)
  2. Jaeger's Howe (2012)

Novels

  • I, Virgil (1995)
  • Nero (1996)
  • The Horse Coin (1999)
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