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E-books! Falling From Grace and In the Hands of Anubis are now available as e-books from four different companies: Kobo, Ibooks, Nook and the Sony ReaderStore via the Brindle & Glass website. Just click on the book cover, then choose your format of choice in the lower left hand corner.

Ann will be reading at the Galiano Literary Festival from Feb. 24-26, 2012. A wonderful event on a beautiful island.

Awards: Falling From Grace has been awarded the silver medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards: Canada West-Best Regional Fiction category.

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Ann's short story, The High Clear Bell of Morning, has been shortlisted for the 2010 Bridport Prize. The story, which placed in the top 100 short story entries out of 6000, forms the core of her next novel. Congratulations to the winners of the prize.

IN THE HANDS OF ANUBIS GERMAN EDITION RELEASED FALL 2010!

German Publisher Bastei Lubbe has just released a German translation of In The Hands of Anubis under the title, Mehr Als Ein Sommer, with translation by Diana Beate Hellmann. The book is available as a trade paperback, e-book or book club edition from the Lubbe website. Check out the fun new covers!

Prairie Fire Review of Books: Read the review by Alissa Schacter for In the Hands of Anubis in the 2010 issue (Vol 10, No.3).

"The novel speaks fluently about both the physical and the spiritual realms and offers a quiet reminder of the inter-connection between them. It intimates that in our search for meaning, we must look beyond the trappings of our modern lives to nature’s transcendent truths".

A reader says about Falling From Grace:Just bought three copies of Ann Eriksson's Falling From Grace, and not just because my ten year old daughter is a person of small stature. I hope it will inspire my beloved eldest to great things. Thank you for bringing it to the world, and thank you to Ann Eriksson for writing such a wonderful woman of small stature into life.

Globe and Mail: Read the July 26, 2010 review of Falling From Grace

"Eriksson’s writing has a rare precision," says reviewer Heather McRobie of the Globe and Mail. "Her juxtaposition of Faye’s dwarfism and the vast size of the ancient trees she studies could easily have been clunky and overplayed, but Eriksson’s close attention to detail, both in characters and ecology, makes the theme plausible and gripping."

Check it out online at: CBC North by Northwest: Hear Ann's interview with Sheryl MacKay by going to http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/podcast/index.html#nxnw and downloading the podcast for Sunday July 18, 2010.

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What the reviewers are saying about Falling From Grace

Lindsay at the Galiano Bookstore writes in The Active Page (May 2010): "I hate to use the cliched "every once in awhile" phrase, but I really simply must in this case. Bear with me.

Every once in awhile, you pick up a novel that completely shocks you. It wasn't that I doubted Eriksson's beautiful prose, but simply that on the surface, I didn't think that the story would really hold me. After all, what do I have in common with a dwarf entomologist?

More that you might think. I read this eloquent novel in two sittings. The first sitting brought me past page 80, and left me itching to return to it. The second sitting left me in a heap of tears and with very wet pyjama shirtsleeves. I cried my eyes out.

Not just the rolling down the cheeks full tears, but the heaving crying that only comes when something really profound touches me. This novel takes the soul and spirit of a woman and translates it into a universal language that is precise, poetic and full of clear and crafted language.It is clear that the author did her research, but she managed to turn it into a cleanly woven novel of Sitka Spruce proportions.

I feel especially warmed after reading this novel knowing that Ann Eriksson will be visiting Galiano and doing a reading on May 16th. If I were you, I would pickup a copy of Falling From Grace and get acquainted. I will be there trying not to gush."

The Vancouver Sun ( Sunday April 17) calls Faye Pearson a "character of substance, complexity and stature".

Richard at boughtbooks.blogspot.com says: "I really had no choice but to pick up one of the newest offerings from the increasingly interesting Brindle & Glass publishers: Ann Eriksson's novel Falling from Grace .I haven't started reading it yet, but here's the back-cover description, which will explain why I needed it:...

March 15, 2010 Victoria Times Colonist by Moira Dunn (also run in the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post)

"This is a novel that will lead you to look up (way up) and consider the many and various gifts the forest canopy yields. Who knew it was, for so many, such a place of refuge, research, protest, love, life and death...

A reader writes about Falling From Grace: Just bought three copies of Ann Eriksson's Falling From Grace, and not just because my ten year old daughter is a person of small stature. I hope it will inspire my beloved eldest to great things. Thank you for bringing it to the world, and thank you to Ann Eriksson for writing such a wonderful woman of small stature into life.

Interviews

CBC North by Northwest: Hear Ann's interview with Sheryl MacKay by going to http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/podcast/index.html#nxnw and downloading the podcast for Sunday July 18, 2010.

Listen to CBC's afternoon show with host Jo-Ann Roberts as she interviewed Ann last year about In the Hands of Anubis. The show reaches the North Coast to the Peace, the Southern Interior and Vancouver Island. http://www.cbc.ca/allpointswest/

Listen to Ann's interview with Brenda Finley of CKUA in Edmonton about In the Hands of Anubis which was aired on Sunday April 5, 2009 and is available on the CKUA archives