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

• Powder Monkey (2005)
• Prison Ship (2006)
• Battle Fleet (2007)
• Ausländer (2009)

Non-fiction (selected)

• Tales of Real Escape (1994)
• Tales of Real Survival (1995)
• Tales of Real Heroism (1996)
• Tales of Real Adventure (1996)
• 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)