[1] Reynolds worked for The Guardian in the 1960s, and published his first novel, Better Dead than Red, in 1964; it was praised by Anthony Burgess as "savagely funny".
He also wrote the lyrics for a production of George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.
Around 1980, he made a BBC documentary called Great Little Railways, about a trip through the Ecuadorean Andes.
[3] In an interview in 2018, his first wife, the journalist Gillian Reynolds, reported that she was the victim of domestic violence.
He wrote crime novels included Death Dyed Blonde, which appeared in 2008.