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. Following the funeral of his father... more info
Fourth Book in an Excellent Series 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. Following the funeral of his father Marcus... more info
Fictional Rome at its best! Wishart's 1998 novel Sejanus is by far the best to date that I have read of his fictional works set in ancient Rome. From master to slave, the characters are drawn with Dickensian completeness. Each is memorable for personal traits and foibles; each is plausibly motivated and psychologically convincing. Even the women - in particular, the chief Vestal, Junia Torquata - are fully characterized and individuated.
In pursuing the clues left for him by Livia, Corvinus encounters a wealthy foreigner then... more info
A masterful political mystery set in ancient Rome David Wishart's 1998 novel "Sejanus" is by far the best to date of his fictional works set in ancient Rome. From master to slave, the characters are drawn with Dickensian completeness. Each is memorable for personal traits and foibles; each is plausibly motivated and psychologically convincing. Even the women - in particular, the chief Vestal, Junia Torquata - are fully characterized and individuated.
The story is narrated in the first person by a Roman noble, Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, who, with... more info
