Nicolas Tredell
Nicolas Tredell's latest book is Critical Insights: Native Son (2025). His previous books include three more Critical Insights volumes in 2020, In Cold Blood, The Kite Runner and A Midsummer Night's Dream; Anatomy of Amis: (2017) on Martin Amis; Conversations with Critics (1994; 2015), featuring his interviews with John Barrell, Catherine Belsey, Bernard Bergonzi, Christine Brooke-Rose, Dame A. S. Byatt, David Caute, Brian Cox, Donald Davie, Terry Eagleton, Stephen Heath, Robert Hewison, Philip Hobsbaum, Richard Hoggart, Lisa Jardine CBE, 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 on Colin Wilson's fiction (2015); Analysing Texts volumes on The Great Gatsby / Tender is the Night (2007), and David Copperfield / Great Expectations (2013); C. P. Snow: The Dynamics of Hope (2012); The Great Gatsby: A Continuum Reader's Guide (2007); Cinemas of the Mind: A Critical History of Film Theory (2002); Fighting Fictions (2000; 2010), on B. S. Johnson’s novels; Caute's Confrontationson David Caute’s fiction (1994); The Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis (1993); and Uncancelled Challenge (1990) on Raymond Williams.
From 1999 to 2021, he was Consultant Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Essential Criticism series, which numbers over 90 volumes, eight of which he supplied.
He and Angela Tredell are the co-founders and co-directors of Tredellian Publishing, which has produced twenty-eight fiction and nonfiction pamphlets to date.
He has also published over 500 essays and other pieces in books, peer-reviewed journals, literary magazines, and national newspapers.
He has given keynote speeches at conferences at the Universities of Bucharest, Lisbon and Oradea, and invited talks at Oxford and Jadavpur Universities and at many schools including The Abbey, Ardingly, Dr Challoner's, Latymer and Goldolphin, Reading, Sir Robert Woodard Academy and Wycombe Abbey.
Nicolas's website is http://nicolastredell.co.uk
