BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
Our site features print books and ebooks - both new releases and backlist titles - all of which are available to order through regular trade channels. Browse our subject categories to find books of interest or create and export lists by category to cross-reference with your library's current collection.
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Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, 'Skin' is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here. 'Skin' is a cutting and startling debut novel.
"One of those small glinting gems that make you wonder how it's done...This book surges from the starting gate and flags somewhat in the final lap, but 'Skin''s striking images and thematic vigour combine to make it an uncommon and refreshing literary debut." - The Globe & Mail
Winner of the 1999 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
Winner: Inaugural ReLit Award, 2001
Bonnie Bowman's debut novel, 'Skin', won the inaugural ReLit Award. Her writing has been published in 'subTerrain', 'The Vancouver Review', 'Reader's Digest', and in the anthologies 'Exact Fare Only I' and 'Body Breakdowns'. Bonnie is also a songwriter, journalist, freelance writer and has been a finalist for the Western Magazine Awards. She was born in Toronto, where she now lives after a longish stint in Vancouver. 'Spaz' is her second novel.