Nicolas Tredell

Nicolas Tredell's book Critical Insights: Native Son is due out in March 2025. His previous books include: Critical Insights: In Cold Blood (2020); Critical Insights: The Kite Runner (2020); Critical Insights: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2020); Anatomy of Amis: (2017), the most comprehensive study so far of the fiction and nonfiction of Martin Amis; a new and expanded edition of Conversations with Critics (2015), featuring his interviews with John Barrell, Catherine Belsey, Bernard Bergonzi, Christine Brooke-Rose, David Caute, Brian Cox, Donald Davie, Terry Eagleton, Stephen Heath, Robert Hewison, Philip Hobsbaum, Lisa Jardine, Sir Frank Kermode, Colin MacCabe, Karl Miller, Sir Roger Scruton, C. H. Sisson CH, George Steiner, Raymond Tallis and Dame Marina Warner; Novels to Some Purpose: The Fiction of Colin Wilson (2015); Analysing Texts: David Copperfield and Great Expectations (2013); C. P. Snow: The Dynamics of Hope (2012); Analysing Texts: The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night (2011); The Great Gatsby: A Continuum Reader's Guide (2007); Cinemas of the Mind: A Critical History of Film Theory (2002); Fighting Fictions: The Novels of B. S. Johnson (2000; 2nd edn, 2010); Caute's Confrontations: The Novels of David Caute (1994); The Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis (1993); and Uncancelled Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams (1990).

From 1999 to 2021, he was Consultant Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Essential Criticism Guides series, which now numbers over 90 volumes, eight of which he has himself produced: The Great Gatsby (1997); Great Expectations (1998); Heart of Darkness (1998); The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying (1999); The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000); Macbeth (2006); A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010); and Shakespeare - The Tragedies (2014).

He is the co-founder and co-director, with Angela Tredell, of Tredellian Publishing, which has published twenty-five fiction and nonfiction pamphlets to date.

He has also published over 450 essays, articles, interviews, introductions and obituaries in English, American, Indian and Romanian books, peer-reviewed journals, literary magazines, and national newspapers.

Nicolas was contributing editor of PN Review from 1983-9, and a judge of the 1994 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry and of the 2016 and 2024 English and Media Centre Close Reading Competitions. He co-organized the Literary London Society Conferences on "Conflict and Resolution" (2018) and "Neighbours of Ours" (2019).

He has been a keynote speaker at conferences at the University of Bucharest, the University of Lisbon and the University of Oradea and has given invited talks at Oxford University, Jadavpur University, the Abbey School, Ardingly School, Dr Challoner.s Grammar School, Latymer and Goldolphin School, Reading School and the Sir Robert Woodard Academy.

Nicolas's homepage is http://nicolastredell.co.uk

Nicolas Tredell

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