Historical crime writer David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - 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 with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.

He is married to Rona, head of Support for Learning at St Leonards School in St Andrews, and has two children. He does not play golf but spends a great deal of his non-writing time walking the dog.

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Kindle versions

All the titles are now available on Amazon Kindle; this includes ‘Bodies Politic’, which I’ve now uploaded myself, and which I’m afraid isn’t currently available in hard copy (see the caveat on Plashmill Press below for the sordid details).

I’ve now ‘Kindled’ the first of a completely different series – not Corvinus, not Roman, not crime. The series title is 'the Angus Books', since that's where they're set, Angus being the part of Scotland where I live. No other connection - they're stand-alone stories. At present, there are two titles, Hexagon and Jaeger's Howe (the second has just been uploaded, so may not have appeared yet in the Amazon Kindle list), and I'm currently working on a third. In their original form, the stories were written more years ago than I like to count, certainly before I was published, and then when I was Hodder slipped me into the Historical Crime slot, so  they stayed in the drawer. A great pity, since I’ve always really, really liked them, and through the magic of Kindle I can now take them out, dust them off, and – after some major rejigging and polishing - publish them myself. As I say, they are a completely different kind of book, so I'll quite understand if they're not for you. However, if you’re interested, then please do go to the Amazon Kindle site, call them up and have a look. 

Very best wishes

David Wishart

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For an author interview, go to http://helencaldwell.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/interview-with-david-wishart/

Plashmill Press

I – and a lot of other people – are having major problems with Plashmill: books ordered and paid for but not delivered, follow-up e-mails going unanswered. All else having failed, I’ve reached the stage of contacting the Society of Authors asking their help in stopping Rod Fleming, the owner, from advertising ‘Bodies Politic’ as being for sale through the Plashmill website.  

If you were thinking of ordering the book, then please don’t; if you have already ordered and paid for it but not received it, then please let me know. I haven’t got any copies myself, and so can’t supply them, but what I can and will do is send you e-copies of the original chapter files. Not the ideal solution, I know, but the best I can manage. 

My sincere apologies for something that is not my fault but which I feel guilty about. Where future books are concerned, I hope to be able to handle the printing and distribution side through the printing firm which Plashmill used to produce their copies.