Light Hearts: Terry Fallis & Rod Carley
Lakefield College School Bryan Jones Theatre
Saturday, July 19 @ 7:00 pm
Fast pacing, humour, and thrilling turns: authors Terry Fallis and Rod Carley take the reader on an adventure that will not soon be forgotten.
In conversation with Amy Jones
Terry Fallis
Terry Fallis is a leading Canadian humorist, with two of his novels having won the Leacock Medal for humour and three others named as finalists. His first novel, The Best Laid Plans, was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads as “the essential Canadian novel of the decade,” and was later adapted as a CBC Television series and a stage musical. A skilled public speaker, he lives in Toronto with his wife, and blogs at www.terryfallis.com.
Bestselling and 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.
Rod Carley
Rod Carley is a veteran theatrical director and producer as well as the author of four works of humorous fiction, three of which have been longlisted for the Leacock Medal. Ruff was recently awarded the 2025 Silver Medal for Best European Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Rod lives in Brockville, Ontario.
In Carley’s latest Ruff, Will Shakespeare is having a very bad year. Suffering from a mid-life crisis, a plague outbreak, and the death of the ancient Queen, Will’s mettle is put to the test as he struggles to write a Scottish supernatural thriller. In the madcap tale that ensues, Will faces one ruff and puffy obstacle after another, including a rival punk poet and his activist-wife fighting for equality and a woman’s right to tread the boards.
Amy Jones
Amy Jones is an award-winning writer whose first novel, We’re All in This Together, was a national bestseller, won the Northern Lit Award, and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal. The author of two other novels and a short story collection, she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and is a mentor in the Flying Books Mentorship program. Originally from Halifax, she lived in Thunder Bay for many years before moving to Toronto.