Chris Ward: 6 books

For dedicated ship spotter Ken, the appearance of the mighty supertanker The Bostonian at his local harbour on the last leg of its final voyage, is a sight too important to miss. However, school bully Max has other ideas ...

Mewteth Seconds are one player short for the game that could decide which team goes up and which team goes down from Cornish League Seven East. Mewteth's captain has found a substitute player, but only if Trevor, the captain of Ramswell Seconds, agrees. The guy has a funny name, but what does it matter?...

Kenny is looking forward to trying out for his school team. What he's not looking forward to is using his grandad's tatty old bat. Used during his grandad's only first class century, Kenny isn't convinced that the bat causes special things to happen... Grandad’s Old Bat is a story about village...

After yet another poor performance, John is dropped from Welmsworth Seconds, and at sixty-one years old thinks his career in village cricket might be over for good. Then he gets one last chance to prove himself ... Never Give Up is the first in Michael White's Tales from the Village Green series....

Kevin Green is his school cricket team's perennial twelfth man. On the unlikely occasions that he gets to play he bats eleven, doesn't bowl, and fields at fine leg. Then one day his form teacher, Mr Woodhouse, asks him to play a real game - for Highfield men's team. Kevin finally has a chance...

Jimmy Wentworth is known as a stonewaller and has no chance of making the team for the Twenty20 knockout cup final. That is until he receives a mysterious message, and begins to grow a rather famous beard ... Searching for W.G. is the fourth in Michael White's Tales from the Village Green series....