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Abodunrin, Femi; Dale, Leigh; Tiffin, Chris; Lane, Richard; Scafe, Suzanne; Tickell, Alex; Chambers, Claire and Wattie, Nelson (2006). New Literatures. Year's Work in English Studies, 85(1) pp. 978–1130.

Boehmer, Elleke and Tickell, Alex (2015). The 1990s: An Increasingly Postcolonial Decade. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50(3) pp. 315–352.

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Cui, Feng and Tickell, Alex (2021). Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57(2) pp. 147–153.

Dale, Leigh; Tiffin, Chris; Lane, Richard; Mills, Chester St. H.; Tickell, Alex and Wattie, Nelson (2005). New Literatures. The Year's Work in English Studies, 84(1) pp. 945–1020.

Tickell, Alex (2021). Han Suyin’s Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57(2) pp. 241–254.

Tickell, Alex (2020). Postcolonial Fiction and the Question of Influence: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things and Rumer Godden. Postcolonial Text, 15(1)

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Tickell, Alex (2019). Introduction. In: Tickell, Alex ed. The Oxford History of the Novel in English Volume 10: The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945. The Oxford History of the Novel in English, 10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xvii-xxxiv.

Tickell, Alex (2019). Life-Writing, Testimony and Biographical Fiction. In: Tickell, Alex ed. The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945, Volume 10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 428–442.

Tickell, Alex and Gabriel, Sharmani (2019). History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia. In: Tickell, Alex ed. The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945. The Oxford History of the Novel in English, 10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 398–413.

Tickell, Alex (2018). Writing in the Necropolis: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Studies, 18(1) pp. 100–112.

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Tickell, Alex and Ranasinha, Ruvani (2018). Delhi: New writings on the megacity. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3) pp. 297–306.

Tickell, Alex (2016). 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Indian Fiction in English After 1991. In: Tickell, Alex ed. South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37–58.

Tickell, Alex (2016). Introduction. In: Tickell, Alex ed. South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–18.

Tickell, Alex (2015). Some Uses of History: Historiography, Politics and the Indian Novel. In: Anjaria, Ulka ed. A History of the Indian Novel in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 237–250.

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Tickell, Alex (2015). An Interview with Manju Kapur. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(3) pp. 340–350.

Tickell, Alex (2015). Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. In: Malreddy, Pavan Kumar; Heidemann, Birte; Laursen, Ole Birk and Wilson, Janet eds. Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalisation, Labour and Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 150–164.

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Tickell, Alex (2013). Review Essay: 'Elementary My Dear Hameed': Postcolonial Crime Fiction; Nels Pearson and Marc Singer, ed Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World; Ibne Safi The Laughing Corpse; Ibne Safi Dr Dread; M C Dutton The Singhing Detective. Wasafiri(75) pp. 73–76.

Tickell, Alex (2013). The Perils of Certain English Prisoners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and the limits of colonial government. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 67(4) pp. 457–489.

Tickell, Alex (2012). Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. London: Routledge.

Tickell, Alex (2011). Scholarship-terrorists: the India House Hostel and the 'student problem' in Edwardian London. In: Ahmed, Rehana and Mukherjee, Sumita eds. South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858-1947. London: Continuum, pp. 3–18.

Tickell, Alex (2010). Excavating histories of terror: thugs, sovereignty and the colonial sublime. In: Boehmer, Elleke and Morton, Stephen eds. Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 177–201.

Tickell, Alex (2010). Introduction to 'Beyond the Law: Postcolonial Writing, Legality and Legitimacy'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46(5), pp. 439-445.

Tickell, Alex (2009). Cawnpore, Kipling and Charivari: 1857 and the politics of commemoration. Literature and History, 18(2) pp. 1–19.

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Tickell, Alex (2009). Kipling's famine-romance: masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in “William the Conqueror”. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45(3) pp. 251–263.

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Tickell, Alex (2007). Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Routledge Guides to Literature. Abingdon: Routledge.

Tickell, Alex (2005). The Discovery of Aryavarta: Hindu nationalism and Early Indian Fiction in English. In: Tickell, Alex and Morey, Peter eds. Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism. Cross Cultures Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures in English (82). Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 25–52.

Tickell, Alex (2005). Writing the nation's destiny: Indian fiction in English before 1910. Third World Quarterly, 26(3) pp. 525–541.

Tickell, Alex (2004). Negotiating the landscape: travel, transaction and the mapping of colonial India. Yearbook of English Studies, 34 pp. 18–30.

Tickell, Alex (2003). Terrorism and the Informative Romance: Two Early South-Asian Novels in English. Kunapipi, 25(1) pp. 73–82.

Tickell, Alex (2003). The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38(1) pp. 73–89.

Tickell, Alex (2001). "How many Pakistans?" questions of space and identity in the writing of partition. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 32(3) pp. 155–179.

Tickell, Alex (2001). Footprints on the Beach: Traces of Colonial Adventure in Narratives of Independent Tourism. Postcolonial Studies, 4(1) pp. 39–54.

Tickell, Alex (2000). The road less travelled: Pather Panchali in translation. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 35(1) pp. 147–162.

Tickell, Alex (2000). Miraculous Realities: Postcolonial Identity and the Limits of Form in the Work of Salman Rushdie and Intizar Husain. In: Damodaran, Vinita and Unnitahn-Kumar, Maya eds. Postcolonial India: History, Politics, Culture. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 325–339.