York Explore Library 

Sun 1 Oct 

2.00pm – 3.30pm 

£5

Nick Triplow, biographer of Ted Lewis, Brit noir pioneer and author of the novel Jack’s Return Home, adapted by Mike Hodges as the seminal British gangster film, Get Carter, in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill.

Nick Triplow’s book, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of Ted Lewis, the doomed author of British noir classic Jack’s Return Home, filmed as Get Carter in 1971.

As a precursor to the screening of this classic British crime film at City Screen on October 2, Nick will be in conversation with fellow crime writer, Nick Quantrill. They will discuss Lewis’s relationship to his story, originally set in Scunthorpe, the creation of the enduring character of Jack Carter, and the story’s historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times.

The event is a taster for the Hull Noir festival, part of the 2017 City of Culture celebrations, which takes place over the weekend of the 18/19 November.

Nick Triplow is the author of the South London crime novel Frank’s Wild Years and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a distinction on Sheffield Hallam University’s MA Writing. Since completing his biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.

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