Appearing
Gateshead (11th), Middlesbrough (12th), Stockton (13th)
Author Website
www.bashley.com/
Publisher
Hachette Children's Books
Bernard Ashley is one of the top writers for teenagers today. Drawing on his experience as a headteacher in a South London school he writes exciting, hard-hitting stories for the young adult reader plus picture book and younger fiction texts.
Bernard's first novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft won the 'Other Award', an alternative to the Carnegie Award (for which he has been shortlisted twice) and since then Bernard has written extensively both for television and the children's book market. His adaptation of his own novel Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for the Best Children's Entertainment Programme and was shown in fifteen different countries.
Bernard has written a number of successful novels for Orchard Books. Tiger Without Teeth chosen as the Guardian's Children's Book of the Week, Little Soldier, about the gang-run estates of inner London, shortlisted for both the Carnegie and Guardian Fiction Award and Revenge House, a hard-hitting crime thriller for teenagers. All show Bernard's highly-charged and compelling approach.
Ten Days to Zero introduced the investigative journalist Ben Maddox in a gripping, action-packed thriller about the deportation of a South American exile facing the death penalty in his own country. Maddox returns in Bernard's latest novel Down to the Wire when the journalist finds himself caught up in the dangerous politics surrounding the signing of a young African footballer for an English team.
Recommended Reads
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Flashpoint Orchard 978-1846160608 Working undercover for Zephon TV, Ben gets himself taken on as a stagehand for the European tour of She-Pirate, a musical starring rock star Flame. Suspecting that drugs are being brought into Britain by members of the company, Ben discovers a repugnant and shameful business - while caught up in the dangerous consequences is Paul Filey, a young East End actor who, in his first professional job, has personal battles to fight. |
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Down to the Wire Orchard 978-1846160592 A second gripping Ben Maddox story. News reporter, Ben, is sent to the Ivory Coast to report on a fragile political situation. Whilst there, he stumbles across another human interest story in the proposed signing of a young African football star. Soon he is thrust into a dangerous adventure involving politics and child trafficking - and this time, there is no going back... |
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Ten Days to Zero Orchard 978-1846169571 When journalist Ben Maddox is thrust full-throttle into an investigation for Zephon TV, he worries that he's in over his head. But as he digs deeper, he realises that what's really important is being prepared to fight for what you believe in, and if that means risking his life, then that's exactly what he will have to do... |