Name: An Evening with Terry Fallis (The Marionette)
Start: 2025-11-18T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-18T20:00:00-06:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

An Evening with Terry Fallis (The Marionette)

Join us for an evening with bestselling author Terry Fallis as he returns to Winnipeg to discuss his latest book, The Marionette (McClelland & Stewart) with host Deborah Bowers. A book signing will follow.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771021114/terry-fallis/the-marionette
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/moDLf2Ukm1I
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“Seldom has a Canadian spy mission to the West African country of Mali been this much fun. Just like what Terry Fallis did with Canadian politics in his first novel, The Best Laid Plans, he does the impossible once again, making something inherently unfunny into an amazingly delightful adventure. Someday I want to grow up and write like Terry Fallis.” - Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Cold
Beloved author Terry Fallis’ tenth novel, The Marionette, introduces readers to a new hero, James Norval: a world-famous thriller writer whose life takes an unexpected turn from the pages of his novels into the perilous world of espionage. A comic thriller by a master of the craft, Fallis’ latest is shot through with his signature wit and combined with an exhilarating high-stakes plot, making it a must-read for fans of espionage and intrigue.
Terry Fallis grew up in Toronto and earned an engineering degree from McMaster University. Drawn to politics at an early age, he worked for cabinet ministers in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park. His first novel, The Best Laid Plans, began as a podcast, then was self-published, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, was re-published by McClelland & Stewart to great reviews, was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads as “the essential Canadian novel of the decade,” and was adapted as a CBC Television series and a stage musical. His next two novels, The High Road and Up and Down were finalists for the Leacock Medal, and in 2015, he won the prize a second time, for his fourth book, No Relation. His other novels include Poles Apart, One Brother Shy, Albatross, Operation Angus, and A New Season, and were all national bestsellers. A skilled public speaker, he lives in Toronto with his wife, and blogs on his website.