Adam Wishart

Adam Wishart (born 1969) is a documentary filmmaker. His professional background includes writing, directing, and appearing in various productions for BBC television projects. Professional background Writing Wishart's first book, Leaving Reality Behind, co-authored with historian Regula Bochsler was published in 2002, by Fourth Estate in the UK and HarperCollins in the United States. Leaving Reality Behind tells the history of what's become known as the Toywars – a battle between an online retailer and a group of European artists, which highlighted for the first time, the contradictions at the heart of the internet and ecommerce. The Financial Times said it was "an important story, as absorbing as a well crafted thriller". An extract from the book was published in The Guardian. Wishart's second book, One in Three: A Son's Journey Into the History and Science of Cancer, was published in 2006 by Profile Books in the UK, by Grove Atlantic in America and translated and published into German, Finnish, Chinese, Icelandic and Japanese. The book told the story of David Wishart's battle against cancer. The story of David, the author's father, was interwoven with the history of cancer medicine over two millennium. The book was nominated for The Royal Society Book Award in 2007.