Terry Griggs

• Jan-1982
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Another Manitoulin Island story from the author of Quickening. Terry Griggs' stories have appeared in numerous Canadian journals; they have also been anthologized in The New Press Anthology, No. 1, The Macmillan Anthology 3, and the Journey Prize ...

• Sep-1995
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• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction
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Rogues’ Wedding is a masterful and wildy inventive novel from acclaimed author Terry Griggs. Set in 1898, it takes us on a comic romp across Victorian Ontario, through a landscape full of extraordinary characters and natural wonders, as we foll...

• Mar-2003
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Short-listed for Mr. Christie's Book Award, the Red Cedar Book Award, and a Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice selection, this adventure begins when Olivier goes to spend his summer vacation at Cat's Eye Corner, the very strange home of his g...

• Jun-2004
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A delusional ghost, a mischievous book, and the hapless Olivier keep things humming in this second entry in the Cat's Eye Corner series. The story begins with our hero, Olivier, examining his discovery from his last adventure (as related in Cat's Eye...

• Sep-2006
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The third title in this delightful series begins as Olivier, an adventurous 12-year-old boy, is helping his very odd step-step-stepgramma with her equally odd yard sale. When some mysterious customers show up, along with a troublesome wind, Olivier f...

• May-2009
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Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, these first short stories from Terry Griggs herald one of the most original voices to appear out of Canada in the last several decades. The stories in Quickening are eccentric, wildly inventive, whimsic...

• May-2009
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Meet the Perfect Man...no, no, he’s not the hero of Thought You Were Dead. That would be Chellis Beith, literary researcher, slacker, reluctant detective, and a man bedeviled by every woman in his life. This is the most unconventional of murder mys...

• May-2010
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Strange things are happening in town, but only Nieve seems to notice that something is up. But when two strangers come to town, trailing night along behind them, and people, including Nieve’s best friend Malcolm, begin to disappear, Nieve knows tha...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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The Discovery of Honey is a suite of short stories narrated by Hero, its hyper-precocious and nosily omniscient central character. Running wild even before she can walk, Hero goes on riotous road trips, dabbles in DIY dark magic, falls in and out of ...

• Jun-2018
• / Literary
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Spooked by some ball lightning on his wedding night, repressed young Catholic Griffith Smolders interprets this as a sign and abandons his conjugal responsibilities by escaping through the window, enduring a series of misadventures along the way invo...

• Feb-2024
• / Literary
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Set in the hippie haven of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto, Contrariwise is the story of a teasing bedevilment. The moment our heroine arrives in this happening spot, windfall cash in hand, she acquires an odds-and-sods antique shop, a new name, a...