David Bowman

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1993
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Carthaginian Empire

1 - Explorer (Aug-2010)
2 - Homecoming (Aug-2010)
3 - Shipwrights (Aug-2010)
4 - Anaxagoras (Sep-2010)
5 - Syracuse (Sep-2010)
6 - Handro's Fleet (Sep-2010)
7 - Handro and Athens (Sep-2010)
8 - Nemea And Coronea (Sep-2010)
9 - Return to Athens (Oct-2010)
10 - Assassin (Oct-2010)
11 - Revenge (Oct-2010)
12 - Macedonean Rebellion (Oct-2010)
13 - Desert Rats (Sep-2011)
14 - Tyre (Sep-2011)
15 - Empires (Sep-2011)
16 - Stalemate (Sep-2011)
17 - The Galley (Sep-2011)
18 - Bay of Naples (Sep-2011)
19 - Crucift Them! (Sep-2011)
20 - Caesar Free! (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Let the Dog Drive

    It's 1975. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's Sylvia Cushman, a 45-year-old housewife, who loves driving alone through the desert. They odyssey through western motels ...

  • Bunny Modern

    The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prizewinning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel -- a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future wh...

  • On Seminary Ridge

    Robert E Lee was offered command of Union forces before he rode south to join the Confederacy, choosing State over Federal rights.If he had decided the other way, just maybe the fateful Third day at Gettysburg might well have gone differently....

  • Carthaginian Empire Volume I

    History is written by the winners, so, consider what might have been? If the Romans hadn't beaten the Carthaginians, it could have been a Carthaginian Empire we would have looked back on as the cradle of our civilisation and our laws. Now travel with...

  • Seven Sisters

    In an intact Ninth Century Roman Empire one man is given the chance to fight one more battle to bring an end to years of civil war. To win he must besiege the most highly fortified city in the empire. Fabled for its seven fortresses and ingenious wat...

  • Explorer

    Carthaginian Empire - 1

    The Carthaginian explorer Hanno left the Mediterranean to sail south. Instead the grandmother of all storms has pushed him north. His small fleet of war galleys, battered, crews exhausted, supplies depleted are pinned by tide and wind against a hosti...

  • Homecoming

    Carthaginian Empire - 2

    Hanno has made friends with the local tribe even married the chief’s daughter but can he get home? He needs to repair his ships but his tools don’t work so well on the local oak. Can he turn this to his advantage? Meanwhile what of the trader; ca...

  • Shipwrights

    Carthaginian Empire - 3

    Carthage has a trick nobody else has realized. Their ships are mass produced. English oak is stronger than any timber available in the Mediterranean. Could this be turned to Carthage’s advantage? Would an oak fleet rule the True Sea? Can Carthagini...

  • Anaxagoras

    Carthaginian Empire - 4

    One sorry for himself Athenian philosopher and mathematician. Exiled from Athens on pain of death. Banned from teaching. But for Carthage he holds a key. His theories could lead to a navigation system that will enable them to extend their supremacy. ...



  • Handro and Athens

    Carthaginian Empire - 7

    Athens has been humbled on the battle field. Her army broken, her fleets destroyed. But Athens herself is untouched. Handro takes his chance. His orders are to humiliate but not sack the city the inhabitants think of as the cultural capital of the wo...

  • Handro's Fleet

    Carthaginian Empire - 6

    Sparta and Athens are fighting again. But which one does Carthage want to win? Sparta’s fleet is small and resents no real threat at sea. Her army is large and superb. Athens’ fleets control the eastern Med. How long can Carthage allow this state...

  • Nemea And Coronea

    Carthaginian Empire - 8

    Ten years of bitter war - the combined armies of Sparta and Carthage under charismatic leaders Lysander and Handro have the chance to end it. They must eliminate the armies of their four largest opponents. Sparta are the masters of hoplite warfare...

  • Syracuse

    Carthaginian Empire - 5

    Hanno’s grandson has a problem. Carthage wants control of Sicily. So does Athens. Only the port of Syracuse holds out against Carthage’s ambitions. But it has held out for four long years. Carthage is sick of war. Carthage wants its son’s home....

  • Assassin

    Carthaginian Empire - 10

    Handro is taking a well earned sabbatical, a chance to rest in Athens, now captured. One night a slight sound disturbs him. The spreading wetness by his side tells him his sleeping companion has been murdered. Is the assassin still in the room? Who i...

  • Macedonean Rebellion

    Carthaginian Empire - 12

    Phillip would be king of Macedonia if the Carthaginians hadn't arrived. Now he must lead a last desperate rebellion against the overlords from across the sea. Is it still his destiny to rule or has Carthage the wit and might to destroy the dynasty...

  • Return to Athens

    Carthaginian Empire - 9

    Handro and the forces of Carthage have won the battles but the other cities of Greece have closed their gates to him and his Spartan allies. The Spartans have stormed Corinth and reduced it to rubble. Handro does not want this fate to befall Thebes a...

  • Revenge

    Carthaginian Empire - 11

    After the failed assassination time Handro must act. But has Lysander truly decided to change sides? Why send a Theban? If Sparta has changed sides what to do with the Spartan garrison troops in Athens. Why are there plumes of thick smoke rising from...

  • Caesar Victorious

    At the hilltop fortress of Alesia, Vercingetorix leads a desperate force of Gaulish warriors in a last stand against a Carthaginian army led by the Roman Julius Caesar. With other tribes surrounding him, Caesar elects to fight an innovative campaign....

  • Cold Revenge

    Forty years earlier the Vikings sent a fleet of Carthaginian galleys to the bottom of the North Sea, and left the bones of a Carthaginian army to whiten in the snows of Finland. It may have taken forty years but now it is time for Carthage to have it...



  • Cold Water, Cold Land

    To stop the raids on their northern frontiers, a punitive fleet is sent north to punish the remaining Viking tribes. Off the cape of Jutland, the Carthaginian galleys finally find the Norse long ship is a formidable craft. Attacking through the snows...

  • England Prospers

    Pushing north, the Carthaginian forces have conquered Denmark. The Angles, the Saxons, and the Franks have been overrun. The galleys of the Carthaginian fleet control the seas from Spain to Denmark. Protected in this way, the British reap the benefit...

  • European Union

    All of Europe west of the river Rhine lies under the hand of Carthage. Ruled jointly from the south, Carthage itself, and north, Mai Dan in Britain, the empire appears to be at peace. There are three firebrands within the empire, two of whom are look...

  • Expedition

    Fed up with the constant raids across the frontier, the river Rhine, into his otherwise peaceful province of Gaul, Hansro, its governor, finally convinces the regional government in Mai Dan to take action. So begins an epic journey that starts with t...

  • Hamilcar

    Nine years ago, Hansro led his punitive expeditions against the tribes west of the Rhine. Now the Emperor is on the scene, and his huge army is intent on crushing the Goths once and for all. As the campaign starts, Hamilcar III is surprised and ambus...

  • Hannibal's Crusade

    The Parthians dealt a bitter blow to the military elite of Carthage. Now Hannibal II will lead a punitive expedition across the Danube and, after an epic trek, will assail the wild bowmen from the east. This time the longbow will not be outclassed.It...

  • The Parthians

    With the installation of a new dynasty and the end of the civil war, Carthage hopes to rebuild the peace it had prospered in for so long. Sensing weakness, others have different ideas. Suddenly the brave yeomen with their longbows that had stood thei...

  • Pax Cathaga

    There may be peace throughout the empire, Pax Cathaga restored from the western tip to the eastern border. Unfortunately, when a large empire is at peace, eyes can turn inward in their hunger for power. Many believe the center is corrupt and nee...

  • Trade Not War

    Their borders secure once more, Hannibal II returns in triumph to his home city. As the soldiers of the army are released back into civilian life it is now trade that dominates the agenda.It is 152 AD, and Pax Carthaga has returned. Will Carthage pro...

  • Viking Raid

    After generations of peace, the increasingly violent raids against her northern provinces cause Carthage to raise her battle standards once more. The Scandinavian tribes are bringing misery to Britain and the shores of Gaul. It is time for the milita...



  • Two Brothers

    Crastus had succeeded; he had captured the fabled Seven Sisters complex and finally brought an end to the civil wars that had plagued the Empire for years. Only to have peace seemingly snatched from his grasp by the assassination of the Emperor. With...

  • Bay of Naples

    Carthaginian Empire - 18

    With the Roman fleet at the bottom of the Mediterranean and Hannibal’s mercenary army marauding down the east coast of Italy Rome are up against it. When the entire Roman army is butchered at the battle of Cannae and Hannibal’s brother lands an a...

  • Caesar Free!

    Carthaginian Empire - 20

    The tribes of Gaul have been a thorn in the side of Carthage for far too long. Penned in by Carthaginian occupied Spain to the West, Britain to the North, Italy to the East and the even wilder tribes in across the Rhine the Gauls must finally fight o...

  • Crucift Them!

    Carthaginian Empire - 19

    Seventy years ago the might of Carthage was brought to bear on the city of Rome. Now as Carthage focuses on troubles further abroad Rome sees the chance to rebel, the final chance to win back their freedom and their own destiny. If they lose, the sav...

  • Crucify Them!

    Seventy years ago the might of Carthage was brought to bear on the city of Rome. Now as Carthage focuses on troubles further abroad Rome sees the chance to rebel, the final chance to win back their freedom and their own destiny. If they lose, the...

  • Desert Rats

    Carthaginian Empire - 13

    Unsettled by the Persian advances into Africa from Egypt and feeling threatened by the increased Persian military presence along the East Coast of the Mediterranean from the Dardanelles all the way to the borders of Egypt; Carthage must act. The Pers...

  • Empires

    Carthaginian Empire - 15

    The tribes of Gaul have been a thorn in the side of Carthage for far too long. Penned in by Carthaginian occupied Spain to the West, Britain to the North, Italy to the East and the even wilder tribes in across the Rhine the Gauls must finally fight o...

  • The Galley

    Carthaginian Empire - 17

    There is an important secret to the way the Carthaginians build their galleys. Each is identical to all of the others. They are built to a standard design and each piece is marked. You can take one apart and use it as a set of templates to build more...

  • Stalemate

    Carthaginian Empire - 16

    Over several years the armies of Carthage and Rome have fought each other to bloody stalemate. Neither can gain a decisive advantage. On the sea Carthage’s fleet reigns supreme and the tiny Roman navy is no match for the bigger, faster, more numero...

  • Tyre

    Carthaginian Empire - 14

    Having conquered Egypt it is time for the hard bitten and experienced army of Carthage to move north up the coast. First the city of Tyre stands in their way and if they can subdue the fabled island citadel then Darius is massing the largest army eve...



  • Tales of Westpac - B&W

    Memoirs of a Carrier Sailor of life on an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War. It is profusely illustrated with the author's own vintage photography and contains five squadron newsletter filled with photos and info on day to day life on an aircra...

  • Blubber Butt

  • Imperator

    Crastus has fought to retake the Seven Sisters fortress complex for one Emperor of Rome only for that Emperor to die at the hands of a rebel, pitching Crastus into political turmoil. Having been forced into choosing one of the two rivals for the thro...

  • The Barbarian Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 1 to 4 of the original series and two bonus episodes previously only available in the print anthology.

    Episode 1 â€" Explorer

    The Carthaginian expl...

  • The Greek Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 5 to 11 of the original series and a bonus episode previously only available in the print anthology.

    Episode 5 â€" Syracuse

    Hanno’s grandson...

  • The Macedonean Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 12 to 15 of the original series and a bonus episode previously only available in the print anthology.

    Episode 12 â€" Macedonian Rebellion

    Philli...

  • The Germanic Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 23 to 28 of original series.

    Episode 23 â€" Expedition

    Fed up with the constant raids across the frontier, the river Rhine, into his otherwise ...

  • The Roman Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 16 to 22 of the original series.

    Episode 16 â€" Stalemate

    Over several years the armies of Carthage and Rome have fought each other to bloody stale...

  • The Viking Cycle

    Previously only available as individual e-book short stories, this collection features episodes 29 to 32 of the original series.

    Episode 29 â€" Viking Raid

    After generations of peace the increasingly violent raids against her northern province...

  • Big Bang

    Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people c...



  • Namea and Coronae

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    After ten years of bitter war, finally, the combined armies of Sparta and Carthage, under their charismatic leaders Lysander and Handro, have the chance to put an end to the struggles between the Greek city-states. To do so, they must face and elimin...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Bowman has published 50 books.

David Bowman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Big Bang, was published in January 2019.

The first book by David Bowman, Let the Dog Drive, was published in February 1993.

Yes. David Bowman has 1 series.
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