Bernard Ashley (author)

**Bernard John Ashley** (born April 1935) is a British writer of books for children and teenagers. His first book, _The Trouble with Donovan Croft_, which was published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. _A Kind of Wild Justice_ (1978), _Running Scared_ (1986), and _Little Soldier_ (1999) were runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book.

## Selected works

- _The Men and the Boats: Britain's Lifeboat Service_ (London: Allman, 1968) –
- _Dave_ (1971)
- _The Trouble with Donovan Croft_ (1974) –  or
- _Terry on the Fence_ (1975)
- _All My Men_ (1977)
- _A Kind of Wild Justice_ (1978) –
- _Break in the Sun_ (1980)
- _Dinner Ladies Don't Count_ (1981) –
- _I'm Trying to Tell You_ (1981) –
- _Dodgem_ (1981)
- _Linda's Lie_ (1982)
- _High Pavement Blues_ (1983)
- _Your Guess Is As Good As Mine_ (1983) –
- _A Bit of Give and Take_ (1984)
- _Janey_ (1985)
- _Running Scared_ (1986)
- _Clipper Street: Calling for Sam_ (1987)
- _Clipper Street: Taller Than Before_ (1987)
- _Bad Blood_ (1988)
- _Clipper Street: Down-and-Out_ (1988)
- _Clipper Street: The Royal Visit_ (1988)
- _Clipper Street: All I Ever Ask_ (1989)
- _Clipper Street: Sally Cinderella_ (1989)
- _The Secret of Theodore Brown_ (1989)
- _The Caretaker's Cat_ (1990)
- _Country Boy_ (1990)
- _Chrysalis_ (1990)
- _Getting In_ (1990)
- _The Ghost of Dockside School_ (1990)
- _Seeing Off Uncle Jack_ (1991)
- _Dockside School Stories_ (1992)
- _More Dockside School Stories_ (1992)
- _Three Seven Eleven_ (1993)
- _Johnnie's Blitz_ (1995) –
- _Justin and the Demon Drop-Kick_ (1997) –
- _Roller Madonnas_ (1997)
- _A Present for Peter_ (1997)
- _Flash_ (1997)
- _City Limits: Stitch-Up_ (1997)
- _City Limits: The Scam_ (1997)
- _City Limits: Framed_ (1997)
- _City Limits: Mean Street_ (1997)
- _Tiger Without Teeth_ (1998) –
- _Hannibal Route_ (1999)
- _Justin and the Big Fight_ (1999) –
- _Rapid_ (1999)
- _Little Soldier_ (1999) –  ( US & Canada)
- _Respect_ (2000) –
- _Playing Against the Odds_ (2000) –
- _Justin Strikes Again_ (2001) –
    - also published as _Justin and the Grandad War_ (2009) –
- _Revenge House_ (2002) –
- _Freedom Flight_ (2003) –
- _Close Look, Quick Look_ (2004)
- _Torrent!_ (2004) –
- _Ben Maddox: Ten Days to Zero_ (2005) –
- _Ben Maddox: Down to the Wire_ (2006) –
- _Smokescreen_ (2006) –
- _Ben Maddox: Flashpoint_ (2007) –
- _Angel Boy_ (2008) –
- _Solitaire_ (2008) –
- _No Way to Go_ (2009) –
- _Ronnie's War_ (2010)
- _Aftershock_ (2011)
- _Dive Bombing_ (2012)
- _Hero Girls' (2012)
- _Jack and the German Spy_ (2013)
- _Shadow of the Zeppelin_ (Orchard Books, 2014)
- _Nadine Dreams of Home_ (2014)
- _Dead End Kids_ (2015)
- _The Way It Is_ (2015)

### Picture books

- _Cleversticks_ (1992) –
- _A Present for Paul_ (1996) –
- _King Rat_ (1998)-
- _Growing Good_ (1999) –
- _Who Loves You, Billy?_ (2000)
- _Double the Love_ –  (hardback) or
- _The Bush'' (2003) –

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Bernard Ashley
- **birth name**: Bernard John Ashley
- **birth place**: Woolwich, London, U.K.
- **occupation**: Teacher and author of children's books
- **language**: English
- **education**: Trained as a teacher at Middlesex University#Trent Park, Trent Park College of Education
- **genre**: Children's fiction