S. Giga Patney

S. Giga Patney has taught English as a Foreign Language in England, Japan and Portugal and English as a Second Language in England and Canada. In his 35 years of teaching, he has taught Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Adult classes; and developed and taught Teacher Education programmes at graduate and post-graduate levels at universities in the UK and Canada. His research work is in Sociolinguistics. He has retired to a hobby farm in the interior of British Columbia where he does not, it has to be said, live with his wife, two children and two dogs.

The Shiv-Shivani Trilogy

Book 1

Shiva - Lord of Dance

A Novel in Raga Bhairava

Book 2

Shivani's Story

A Novel in Raga Bhairavi

Book 3

Shivani's Dance of Destruction

A Novel in Four Movements

FACETIAE

The Alchemist Quartet

Book 1

The Alchemist and the Prince

A Story of the Prince With a Nut in His Navel

Book 2

The Alchemist's Manuscript

Of the Travels of the Merchant of Yemen & His servant in the Erythrean Sea as

Book 3

The Alchemist and the Empire of Evil

Book 4

The Alchemist and the Indian Boy

My other books under the title of FACETIAE are spoofs of the British Detective Novels of the last Mid-Century. these are written under the name of AGATE TRICKSIE. The titles are:

MURDER ON THE ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW

DEATH BY PIG

A DEATH IN NAPLES

GRANNY TAKES A TRIP

These will be published in the near future