Brian Jacques Meets Paddy Kelly: Stories from the BBC Radio Merseyside Series is the sixth known published work of Brian Jacques. It was published by Raven Books in November 1981. The book is in hardcover form, and features illustrations by Bill Tidy, with cover art by Gill Dempsey. The hardcover book is large in size, being 8x12. "Paddy Kelly" is Liverpudlian slang for a dock police officer. It is currently out of print, and considered extremely rare.