Paul Dowswell

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2002
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Adventures of a Young Sailor

1 - Powder Monkey (Sep-2005)
2 - Prison Ship (Nov-2006)
3 - Battle Fleet (Nov-2007)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • World of Witches and Wizards

  • True Ghost Stories

  • Powder Monkey

    Adventures of a Young Sailor - 1

    In the exciting tradition of Patrick O'Brian comes the saga of one boy's life in the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall had always dreamed of a sailor's life, but he didn't realize how dangerous an...

  • Prison Ship

    Adventures of a Young Sailor - 2

    In March 1801, a mere six weeks after Sam Witchall's ship wrecked off the Cornish coast, his hopes for getting home are dashed when he is framed for theft and sent to Australia for punishment. The fifteen-thousand mile, eight-month journey is a h...

  • War Stories

    Collects stories of events during the first and second world wars, covering land battles, the naval Battle of Jutland, the last voyage of the Bismarck, the cracking of the Enigma code, and the Manhattan Project....

  • True Stories of the First World War

  • Escape

  • Battle Fleet

    Adventures of a Young Sailor - 3

    When the truth about Sam Witchall's false conviction is finally revealed, he can at last escape Australia and look toward home. On the journey back to England he faces pirates and a terrible storm before making the longed-for trip back up the riv...

  • Heroes

    Profiles a variety of men and women who have shown some form of heroism, from the man who captured Blackbeard the pirate and members of the resistance against Hitler to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and a surgeon in war-torn Beirut....



  • Ghosts

  • Auslander

    When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. But Peter is Volksdeutscher-of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler Youth poster. The Nazis decide he is racially ...

  • The Cabinet of Curiosities

    When Lukas Declercq is orphaned, his uncle summons him to Prague, a refuge for Europe's greatest alchemists and natural philosophers. Uncle Anselmus is court physician to Rudolph II, the reclusive and unstable emperor. He is also curator of Rudolph's...

  • Sektion 20

    Alex lives in East Berlin. The cold war is raging and he and his family are forbidden to leave. But the longer he stays the more danger he is in.

    Alex is no longer pretending to be a model East German, and the Stasi has noticed. They are w...

  • Eleven Eleven

    Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, the story follows a German storm trooper, an American airman and a British Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever conflict to spre...

  • Red Shadow

    Russia, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Misha’s life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin’s inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the glorious new Russia quickly surface. Misha real...

  • Bomber

    ONE IN FIVE NEVER RETURNED.
    Every boy dreams of flying, but in war that dream can turn into a nightmare. Harry Friedman is the gunner of the Macey May, an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Anglia. The Second World War is raging and the ...

  • Wave

  • Wolf Children

    It is July 1945, Hitler's Third Reich has fallen, and Berlin is in ruins. Living on the edge of survival in the cellar of an abandoned hospital, Otto and his ragtag gang of kids have banded together in the desperate, bombed-out city. The war may ...

  • True Stories of Ghosts

    From a troubled spirit in Georgian England to vengeful spirit in 19th century Jamaica, to a haunted World War II U-Boat, this spine-chilling book tells the stories of documented hauntings, describing the events as they were reported at the time. Pa...



  • The Great Revolt

    Thrilling historical adventure set during the English peasants' revolt of 1381, by Paul Dowswell, the author of Ausländer, and Wolf Children.

    It's 1381 and the king, Richard II, has imposed a new tax on the people. In the village ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Dowswell has published 20 books.

Paul Dowswell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Great Revolt, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Paul Dowswell, World of Witches and Wizards, was published in May 2002.

Yes. Paul Dowswell has 1 series.
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