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 at Queen's Park and in Ottawa. 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 became a CBC Television series. 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. A skilled public speaker, Terry Fallis is also co-founder of the public relations agency Thornley Fallis. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons, and blogs at www.terryfallis.com. Follow @TerryFallis on Twitter.
Praise for The Best Laid Plans Amusing, enlightening . .
. it deftly explores the Machiavellian machinations of Ottawa's
political culture. Globe and Mail Brisk and humorous. Ottawa
Citizen
A funny book that could only have been written by someone with
firsthand knowledge of politics . . . including its occasionally
absurd side. The Hon. Allan Rock, former Justice Minister and
Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations Terry Fallis has found
the cure for Canada's political malaise: a stubborn, old,
irreverent Scotsman with nothing to lose. Tom Allen, CBC Radio
host
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