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 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.
Bernard has written a number of successful novels for Orchard Books. Tiger Without Teeth was chosen as the Guardian`s Children`s Book of the Week, Little Soldier about the gang-run estates of inner London was shortlisted for both the Carnegie and Guardian Fiction Award and Revenge House a hard-hitting crime thriller are all typical of Bernard`s highly charged, gritty approach.
Bernard Ashley lives in South East London only a street or so from where he was born. During his time as a teacher and headteacher he worked in Kent, Hertfordshire, Newham and Greenwich.
Visit Bernard Ashley at: www.bashley.com