On Friday the 25th of October, Gentlemen Formerly Dressed was formally launched at the Literary Institute of Batlow. It would take a new novel to fully describe the warmth and colour and enthusiasm of a hometown launch, and so I have simply posted the photographs here instead. From the cardboard chandelier, to the jazz-band silhouettes, the papier-mache stag made from extra pages of the A Few Right Thinking Men, fresh flowers from local gardens, cider made of local apples, not to mention a feast so extravagent that it would have impressed Rowland Sinclair himself, there was not a detail overlooked. Thank you all for a spectacular and elegant good-luck party for Gentlemen Formerly Dressed. Go well little book, and make friends.