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Giga Patney (born November, 1943,) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He has published three novels, four novellas and one fact/fiction novel. Personal life and career[edit] Giga Patney was born on November 11, 1943 in Tanzania. He studied at the University of London (University College and the London School of Economics, B.Sc. (Econ), the Institute of Education (Dip. Ed.) and Birkbeck College (M.A. Applied Linguistics). After a thirty-five year career in teaching early years, elementary, and secondary schools; developing and teaching on graduate and postgraduate courses in London and Vancouver; teaching English as a Foreign Language in London, Portugal and Japan; and teaching English as a Second Language in London and Vancouver, he retired to a hobby farm in the interior of British Columbia where he began writing. Awards and honours[edit]

•1983 Awarded the Inner London Education Authority's Teacher Fellowship at the Institute of Education, London. Novels[edit] The Shiv-Shivani Trilogy •Shiva - Lord of Dance - A Novel in Raga Bhairav (Amazon,2015) •Shivani's Story in Raga Bhairavi (Amazon,2015) •Shivani's Dance of Destruction - A Novel in Four Movements (Amazon,2015) •The Ties of Bandhana - The Story of Alladin Bapu (Amazon,2016) •	•Novellas (Ligh-hearted parable and parodies) •The Alchemist and the Prince - the Story of the Prince with a Nut in His Navel (Amazon,2016) •The Alchemist and the Empire of EvilI (Amazon,2016) •The Alchemist's Manuscript of the Travels of the Merchant of Yemen & His Servant in the Erythrean Sea as Related to the Alchemist of Gozo, the Younger(Amazon,2016) •The Alchemist and the Indian Boy (to be published) •The Alchemist and the Golden Fleece (2017, released on Facebook) Novellas (published under the name Agate Tricksie in the Agate Crime & Mystery Series) •A Death in Naples (Amazon,2017) •Granny Takes a Trip (Amazon, 2017)