When young aristocratic layabout Marcus Corvinus is approached by the stepdaughter of the exiled and now dead Roman poet Ovid and asked to clear the return of the ashes for burial, he cheerfully agrees; there should, he thinks, be no problem.
He is married to Rona and has two children and (currently) four grandchildren..
His first book, \'I, Virgil\', was published in 1995; \'Ovid\' - the first of the Marcus Corvinus series - followed a year later.
He returned to Scotland in 1990, and lives in Carnoustie, Angus.
He studied Classics at Edinburgh University, and after a spell of teaching Latin and Greek in secondary school retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, working for various companies in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia.
About the Author: David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland.
So what, Corvinus asks himself, did Ovid do that was so bad that they won\'t even allow his bones back into Italy? The first book in the Marcus Corvinus series.
Only when he makes the application to the imperial authorities it\'s turned down flat.
When young aristocratic layabout Marcus Corvinus is approached by the stepdaughter of the exiled and now dead Roman poet Ovid and asked to clear the return of the ashes for burial, he cheerfully agrees; there should, he thinks, be no problem
