Always Winning
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  • Published: 29 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529937626
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00

Always Winning

  • Ashley Walters
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29 May 2025
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29 May 2025
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29 Jun 2025
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An unconventional memoir filled with brave and inspiring stories, hard-earned wisdom and the keys to discovering true success and fulfilment.

‘An icon of British and wider Black British culture.’ GQ


An unconventional memoir filled with brave and inspiring stories, hard-earned wisdom and the keys to discovering true success and fulfilment.

If art imitates life then Ashley Walters is living proof. From his explosive performance as the drug dealer Dushane in Top Boy to his turn as an undercover detective in Bulletproof, to his time as a member of one of Britain's most notorious music collectives, So Solid Crew, Ashley's career has always explored the same conflicting forces that have governed his life. Good and evil. Honour and shame. Failure and success. Happiness and despair.

Born on a London council estate, surrounded by drug and gang culture, his father in and out of prison, Ashley found purpose in the performing arts but could never truly escape his environment. At 15, he was stabbed in the neck and left for dead. At 18, he had a gun held to his head as he cradled his newborn son. At 20, he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison.

Through a series of hard lessons, Ashley realised he had to master his own mindset and start to take control of his future. Shared here for the first time, Always Winning is the framework he built to guide him on the path to a more positive, fulfilled existence.

Packed with intimate stories from his own struggles with identity, addiction, family and fame, this book reveals how anyone can embrace the principles of Always Winning to guide them towards true purpose, inner peace and outward success.
  • Published: 29 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529937626
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Always Winning

Always Winning charts the setbacks Walters faced from a young age, while offering pearls of hard-won wisdom to help clear your own path forward

NME

Always Winning is a raw and inspiring testament to resilience; it’s a blueprint for turning adversity into success. I just wish I had read this book sooner!

Steven Bartlett

Ashley Walters continues to provide inspiration in trying times. When so many others are offering advice with mal intent, it’s refreshing to have guidance from a man who has really been through it all. Needed and necessary.

Jordan Stephens

An important and powerful read. Ashley is wise, honest and brave

Ian Wright

Anyone coming from an unprivileged background should read this. Ashley is a prime example of where you’re from doesn’t define where you end up.

Rapman

Ashley shares his life story with such honesty that it captures more than a personal journey - a deeper truth that speaks to our whole time and culture, and offers us all a way forward.

Afua Hirsch

The actor and star of Adolescence reveals how he turned his turbulent past into a very bright future.

The Observer

A brilliant book. I took so much from it.

Fearne Cotton

Walters’ words are ones to take on board. Always Winning is a valuable, rewarding and crucial read.

Buzz Magazine