Guy Hale and Dominic Nolan both entertained and brought joy to Stockport Noir in February this year and we're overjoyed to welcome them both back to Stockport so they can share their wit, humour and dark thriller stories with our wonderful community.

Guy will be sharing details of Put Out The Light, the third in his Shakespeare Murders series and Dominic will be celebrating the paperback release of his highly acclaimed 50's crime thriller, White City. Join us for an evening of fun and summer festivities as we chat to the authors, host an audience Q&A and get your books signed.

Tickets are £5.00 each or £9.95 including a copy of Put Out The Light, £10.99 including a copy of White City or you can bundle both books together for £19 (saving £1.94.) Complimentary light refreshments included in the ticket price.

Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm)

About the authors:

Guy Hale was born in Worcestershire, England. His first job was as a Professional Golfer. He also played Rugby and raced motorcycles until his mid-twenties. When this failed to kill him he started writing plays, mostly two handers which he performed in pubs and assorted venues with his mate, Andy. After selling his successful construction business in 2018, he started Gulf Coast Records with Mike Zito and then started song writing. One night in a bar in LA, Mike told him a story about a dream he'd had. That story turned into the Jimmy Wayne saga and Guy was off and running.

Dominic Nolan lives in London. He is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Past Life, After Dark and Vine Street, all of which received glowing reviews from press and fellow authors alike. In 2021 Vine Street was a The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year pick and Dominic was shortlisted for a CWA Short Story Dagger. White City came out in hardback to widespread reviews in November 2024.

About the books:

Put Out The Light by Guy Hale

Act III Stratford-upon-Avon, spring 1972

On the streets of Stratford four murders remain unsolved. For DC Toby Marlowe there is only one potential killer: Oliver Lawrence. But nobody has seen Oliver for over fifteen years. They don't even know what he looks like, they are chasing a shadow.

Oliver's first act is complete. As spring turns to summer, Act III is about to begin. Like Othello, he is poisoned by lies from the past. Revenge has consumed him . . . Now is the time to put out more lights!

White City by Dominic Nolan

It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and blackmarket spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof. 

For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery. Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house. 

Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale. She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband's disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy 'Mother' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill's underworld. 

Drawn together through the years in the city's invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill's slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London's violent summer.