The book launch for John Reynolds’ two books Uncommon Enemy and Writing Your First Novel was held at the Belmont Rose Centre – a small theatre in North Shore City.

Over 200 people attended and, having enjoyed the wine and nibbles, settled down for an entertaining evening.

Devonport writer Graeme Lay introduced John Reynolds. Graeme, having congratulated John on the publication of his two books, pointed out that the North Shore had a long history of writers and poets including Frank Sargeson, Maurice Duggan, A.R.D. Fairburn, and Bruce Mason.

John then read extracts from his novel, supplemented with quotes from Writing Your First Novel, and fielded many questions and comments from the audience.  Having been careful with his extracts not to give too much of the plot away one of the first questions was, “How does the novel end?”  To laughter he responded, “If I told you that I’d have to kill you.”

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