Brave heartedThe true life story of women's experiences in the 'Wild West' is more gripping, more heart rending, and more stirring than all the movies, novels, folk legends and ballads that popular imagination has been able to create. Whether they were the hard drinking hard living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, 'ordinary' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slave

From easy bakes to showstopping sensations

500 species known

is an unforgettable rock'n'roll story - a journey from a Walsall council estate to musical fame via alcoholism

Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure

This is where one can find the best food in town

compassion and selflessness which characterises so many people and their actions right across the UK

Praise for Barry Walsh:

mischievous prankster

This exceptional work

Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest three farmers you could ever wish to meet

Michael Scot

This momentous time in his life