Fiction
The Inventory (1968)
Words (1971)
Mobius the Stripper: Stories and Short Plays (1974)
The Present (1975)
Four Stories (1977)
Migrations (1977)
The Echo Chamber (1979)
The Air We Breathe (1981)
Conversations in Another Room (1984)
Contre Jour: A Triptych after Pierre Bonnard (1986)
In the Fertile Land (1987)
Steps: Selected Fiction and Drama (1990)
The Big Glass (1991)
In a Hotel Garden (1993)
Moo Pak (1994)
Now (1998)
Goldberg: Variations (2002)
Everything Passes (2006)
Two Novels: After and Making Mistakes (2009)
Heart’s Wings (2010)
Theatre
Vergil Dying (1977)
Non-fiction
The World and the Book (1971, 1979)
The Lessons of Modernism (1977, 1987)
Writing and the Body (1982)
The Mirror of Criticism: Selected Reviews (1983)
The Book of God: A Response to the Bible (1988, 1990)
Text and voice: Essays 1981-1991 (1992)
A Life (2001)
The Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004 (2006)
What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010)
(ed.) The Modern English Novel: The Reader, the Writer and the Book (1975)
(ed.) The Siren’s Song: Selected Essays of Maurice Blanchot (1980)
(ed. with Brian Cummings) The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf (2010)