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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 in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL, Latin 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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BODIES POLITIC

...is now available (at least in the US) from Barnes and Noble (and, I'm assured by reader Theodore Rabinowitz, who told me about this, through Amazon US), price $9.06.

Ebook versions

I've now uploaded the new Corvinus book, 'No Cause for Concern', onto Amazon Kindle and Smashwords (who supply, from what I'm told, more or less everyone else), so it should be available shortly if it isn't already. I'm afraid that it only exists in e-book form at present, but I do have plans to get a boring-old-traditional hard-copy version out when I've sussed out the details with our friendly local printing firm. Don't hold your breath, though - I'm not very good at that side of things...

All the other titles are are already on Kindle, and Bodies Politic is also available through Smashwords and the companies they supply.I’ve also Kindled and Smashworded two other books - not Corvinus, not Roman, not crime -, Hexagon and Jaeger's Howe. 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. 

That's about it for the present. Do, please, feel free to get in touch about anything. It's always good to know there's someone out there.

Very best wishes

David

David Wishart

Ongoing

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