Bernard Ashley Books In Order

Dockside School Books In Order

  1. Getting In (1990)
  2. The Ghost Of Dockside School (1990)
  3. Dockside School Stories (1992)
  4. More Stories from Dockside School (1992)

City Limits Books In Order

  1. Stitch Up (1997)
  2. The Scam (1997)
  3. Framed (1997)
  4. Mean Street (1997)

Ben Maddox Books In Order

  1. Ten Days to Zero (2005)
  2. Down to the Wire (2006)
  3. Flashpoint (2007)

Novels

  1. The Trouble with Donovan Croft (1974)
  2. Terry on the Fence (1975)
  3. All My Men (1977)
  4. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978)
  5. Break in the Sun (1980)
  6. Dodgem (1981)
  7. Linda’s Lie (1982)
  8. High Pavement Blues (1983)
  9. Janey (1985)
  10. Running Scared (1986)
  11. Bad Blood (1988)
  12. Country Boy (1990)
  13. Three Seven Eleven (1993)
  14. Johnnie’s Blitz (1995)
  15. Tiger Without Teeth (1998)
  16. Hannibal Route (1999)
  17. The Little Soldier (1999)
  18. Revenge House (2002)
  19. Freedom Flight (2003)
  20. Smokescreen (2006)
  21. Solitaire (2008)
  22. No Way to Go (2009)
  23. Ronnie’s War (2010)
  24. Aftershock (2011)
  25. Dive Bombing (2012)
  26. Hero Girls (2012)
  27. Jack and the German Spy (2013)
  28. Shadow of the Zeppelin (2014)
  29. Dead End Kids (2015)
  30. The Way it is (2015)
  31. Does She Dare? (2017)

Omnibus

  1. Dinner Ladies Don’t Count / Linda’s Lie (1984)

Collections

  1. Don’t Run Away (1966)
  2. Wall of Death (1966)
  3. The Big Escape (1967)
  4. Space Shot (1967)
  5. Seeing Off Uncle Jack (1991)

Picture Books

  1. Cleversticks (1992)
  2. I Forgot! Said Troy (1996)
  3. A Present for Paul (1996)
  4. A Present for Peter (1997)
  5. Growing Good (1999)
  6. Double the Love (2002)
  7. The Bush (2003)
  8. That’s the One! (2007)

Chapter Books

  1. Dinner Ladies Don’t Count (1981)
  2. I’m Trying to Tell You (1981)
  3. Your Guess Is As Good As Mine (1983)
  4. A Bit of Give and Take (1984)
  5. Calling for Sam (1987)
  6. Down-and-out (1988)
  7. The Royal Visit (1988)
  8. All I Ever Ask (1989)
  9. Sally Cinderella (1989)
  10. The Secret of Theodore Brown (1989)
  11. The Caretaker’s Cat (1990)
  12. Justin and the Demon Drop-kick (1997)
  13. Roller Madonnas (1997)
  14. Flash (1997)
  15. King Rat (1998)
  16. Justin and the Big Fight (1999)
  17. Rapid (1999)
  18. Who Loves You, Billy? (2000)
  19. Playing Against the Odds (2000)
  20. Respect (2000)
  21. Justin Strikes Again (2001)
  22. Torrent! (2004)
  23. Angel Boy (2008)
  24. Justin and the Grandad War (2009)
  25. Nadine Dreams of Home (2014)
  26. Lena Lenik S.O.S. (2017)
  27. The Tiger on His Back (2018)

Non fiction

  1. Men and the Boats (1968)
  2. Weather Men (1971)
  3. Meetings with the Minister (2003)

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Bernard Ashley Books Overview

Down to the Wire

Not long out of the woods from rescuing the home secretary’s daughter from kidnappers, Ben Maddox is on his way to the Ivory Coast to report on a fragile political situation and break out by a separatist group. Whilst there, he stumbles across another human interest story in the proposed signing of a young African football star for Spurs. Soon Ben finds himself thrust, full throttle, into a page turning adventure about a child protegee, set against a background of politics and child trafficking and this time there in no going back.

The Trouble with Donovan Croft

Foster brothers were all right, thought Keith he’d had them before. But how was he supposed to cope with Donovan, a West Indian boy who was so unhappy he couldn’t speak?

Terry on the Fence

A young boy finds himself growing more sympathetic and friendly with the local gang leader who had at first terrorized him into helping carry out some thefts.

All My Men

His parents’ move from London to Kent to establish themselves as shopkeepers brings to Paul a difficult period of adjustment in a new school.

A Kind of Wild Justice

Ronnie Webster lives in the East End, in an area under the control of the notorious Bradshaw brothers. When his father is framed by the Bradshaws and sent to jail, and his mother goes off to live with one of the brothers, Ronnie finds himself on his own, struggling to keep out of trouble and looking for a way to clear his father’s name. But he soon finds himself caught up in another of the Bradshaws’ plots this time a scheme to bring illegal immigrants into the country, for cash. Ronnie foils the plan but we see the other side of his actions too, for one of the immigrants hidden in the back of the Bradshaws’ coach is the father of Ronnie’s schoolmate, Manjit.

Break in the Sun

When her mother marries a spiteful man, Patsy Bligh runs away to join a touring summer theater group.

Johnnie’s Blitz

Johnnie Stubbs is forced to confront his conscience while dodging both bombs and the law in this exciting tale of adventure and morality set in World War II London. With no mother to answer to and a father in the army, Johnnie joins his relatives in a gypsy caravan in an attempt to hide from the authorities. The success of his refuge is jeapordized when a traumatized little girl, drawn to him in the aftermath of a nearby explosion, compels Johnnie to make a compromise between personal concerns and the welfare of the toddler who needs his protection.

The Little Soldier

Kaninda is left for dead when his family is gunned down by the warring tribe’s army in their village in Lesai, Africa. He is saved by a Red Cross like organization called God s Force and brought to the UK to be adopted by a family there, against his will. He would have rather stayed n his home community of Lesai to fight his war and defend the honor of his people and the memory of his family. In his new home, Kaninda stays silent, like a good soldier is trained to do, and plans his escape back to Africa. In the meantime, a gang war and the arrival in London of a boy from the warring tribe will force Kaninda to reconsider his ideas about revenge and loyalty.

Seeing Off Uncle Jack

Three stories about a black London family, seen through the eyes of Winny. In the first she discovers there’s more to Uncle Jack than she imagined, in ‘The Princess Watch’ she comes to realize that family loyalty is important and in ‘Still Wet’ the police learn they can be wrong.

Cleversticks

Ling Sung doesn’t like school. The other children can do things that he can’t. But Ling Sung soon finds out that there is something very special that only he can do! Terry can tie up his shoes — Ling Sung can’t. Manjit can write her name but Ling Sung’s letters go all wrong and Sharon can button up her coat perfectly. Ling Sung doesn’t want to go back to school every again. But the next day at biscuit time Ling Sung does something amazing! He uses two paintbrushes as chopsticks to pick up the biscuits. This is something that no-one else can do, not even the teachers, and Ling Sung feels very special indeed!

I Forgot! Said Troy

When Lee forgets to put his sandwiches into his school lunch box he thinks his whole day on the class outing will be ruined. But when the coach draws up at the school gate, his teacher has a plan to save the day.

Justin and the Demon Drop-kick

Justin gets the blame when the football is kicked over the playground wall and a neigbour complains. Alone with the ball, the head can’t resist kicking it and knocks Mr Branston’s glas*ses off. Justin sees everything, but Mr Branston wants to know who is responsible. Will Justin get the blame again?

Justin and the Big Fight

A new boy starts at school, and Justin is jealous of the amount of attention his friend Tanya is paying him. Out of temper, he drops Tanya from the playtime football team only to discover that in fact the boy is Tanya’s cousin. Too late, Tanya’s big brother has decided to teach him a lesson.

Angel Boy

The school holiday should be fun for Leonard, but he is stuck at home in his hometown of Accra, far away from where his friends from school live. His Nana is not much fun and his father is almost always away at work, leaving Leonard feeling lonely and bored. Looking to eke some fun out of the holiday, Leonard hops a tro tro bus to Elmina, a historic European fort built to imprison slaves before they were shipped off to the Americas. Not only does Elmina attract many tourists, it also attracts street children and gangs. Before Leonard knows what is happening, he’s kidnapped by the toughest gang of all, who plans to use his angelic face to fleece tourists. How will he escape from this living nightmare? Bernard Ashley’s thought provoking Ghanaian story, set in the poverty driven underworld of gangs, leads young readers to a taut, thrilling climax.

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