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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Dissatisfied with his life, middle-aged Robert Lam sets out on a voyage up the coast of Vancouver Island on a quest to discover himself, an odyssey that takes him on a strange journey into the past of India Thackeray, his long-dead mother...



  • In Visible Worlds, award-winning Canadian poet and playwright Marilyn Bowering has created a beguiling, multilayered novel that brings together two seemingly disparate stories as it traces the shattering personal consequences of war.

     Visib...



  • What It Takes to Be Human, the haunting new novel by Orange Prizeâ€"shortlisted author Marilyn Bowering, considers the life of Sandy Grey, an idealistic young air cadet who wants nothing more than to enlist in the Second World War. Sandy’s father, ...



  • Distraught after her grandmother Nora's death, Pearl scatters her ashes in the places Nora loved. As she retraces her grandmother's last journey, she recovers a series of handmade dolls that have been handed down in the family for generations. Hidden...



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    Fourteen-year-old Cathreen is at a turning point: ahead of her is more of the path that has taken her to a lake at a deserted scout camp where a girl is bullied and left to drown; behind her is the dull existence she leads with her mother in a sma...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marilyn Bowering has published 5 books.

The next book by Marilyn Bowering, The Unfinished World, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances a Lady, was published in June 1990.

No. Marilyn Bowering does not write books in series.