Fiction

• The Shadow of the Sun
• The Game
• The Virgin in the Garden
• Still Life
• Possession: A Romance
• Angels and Insects
• Babel Tower
• The Biographer's Tale
• A Whistling Woman
• The Children's Book
• Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Short story collections

• Sugar and Other Stories
• The Matisse Stories
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
• Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
• ✔ Little Black Book of Stories

Essays and biographies

• Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch
• Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Poetry and Life
• Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings
• Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers (with Ignes Sodre)
• On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
• Portraits in Fiction
• Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny