Paul Dowswell

Paul Dowswell is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction, writing mainly for children and young adults. He has written over 60 books, mostly with history as the subject, but also about geography, natural history, and science.

Dowswell has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He went freelance in 1999 after spending eight years a senior editor with Usborne Publishing. Before that he worked for Time–Life, BBC Books, the Science Museum and the British Library Sound Archive.

Fiction

• "The Adventures of Sam Witchall"
  • Powder Monkey (2005)
  • Prison Ship (2006)
  • Battle Fleet (2007)
• Ausländer (2009)
• Cabinet of Curiosities (2010)
• Sektion 20 (2011)
• Eleven Eleven (2012)
• Bomber (2014)

Non-fiction (selected)

• Tales of Real Escape (1994)
• Tales of Real Survival (1995)
• Tales of Real Heroism (1996)
• Tales of Real Adventure (1996)
• The Vietnam War (2001)
• True Spy Stories (2002)
• True Escape Stories (2002)
• True Survival Stories (2002)
• True Stories of Heroes (2002)
• True Ghost Stories (2002)
• True Polar Stories (2002)
• True Everest Stories (2002)
• True Adventure Stories (2003)
• True Stories of the Second World War (2003)
• Sutton Hoo: The Anglo Saxon Way of Life and Death (2004)
• Introduction to the Second World War (2005)
• War Stories (2006)

• London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-2623-2

The Complete Book of the Microscope (with co-author Kirsteen Rogers) won the 1999 Rhône-Poulenc Junior Prize for Science Books.

Auslander won the Hamelin Associazione Culturale Book Prize, Bologna, The Portsmouth Book Award, The Essex Book Award, Calderdale Book of the Year, The Cheshire Schools Book Award and the We Read Book Award over 2010-2012.

Sektion 20 won the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2012

Eleven Eleven won the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2013