Fiction
The Place at Whitton 1964
The Fear 1965, rewritten in 1989 as By the Line
Bring Larks and Heroes 1967
Three Cheers for the Paraclete 1968
The Survivor 1969
A Dutiful Daughter 1971
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1972
Blood Red, Sister Rose 1974
Gossip from the Forest 1975
Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees 1978 (a book for children)
A Victim of the Aurora 1978
Passenger 1979
Confederates 1979
The Cut-Rate Kingdom 1980
Schindler’s Ark 1982
A Family Madness 1985
The Playmaker 1987
Act of Grace 1985,
By the Line 1989
Towards Asmara 1989
Flying Hero Class 1991
Woman of the Inner Sea 1993
Jacko 1993
A River Town 1995
Bettany’s Book 2000
An Angel in Australia 2000, also published as Office of Innocence
The Tyrant’s Novel 2003
The Widow and Her Hero 2007
The People’s Train 2009
The Daughters of Mars 2012
Non-Fiction
Moses the Law-Giver 1975
Outback 1983
Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime 1987
The Place Where Souls are Born: A Journey to the Southwest 1992
Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish 1992
Memoirs from a Young Republic 1993
The Utility Player: The Des Hasler Story 1993
Our Republic 1995
Homebush Boy: A Memoir 1995, autobiography
The Great Shame 1998
American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles 2002
Lincoln 2003, biography of Abraham Lincoln
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia 2005
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir 2007
Australians: Origins to Eureka 2009
Three Famines: Starvation and Politics 2011
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers 2011