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)