There are 160 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 2017 by Reedy Press .

The author, John H. Brown, was born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1940 and was brought up in wartime Britain. He lived and worked in Weymouth until 1965 when he moved to Southend-on-Sea, Essex, married a local girl and has lived there ever since. John has four older sisters, the youngest being two years his senior. As they were so close in age they went to bed around about the same time, from which came the storytelling - if his sister was unable to get to sleep, John would make up stories to tell her!