FICTION
Cliff Hardy series
The Dying Trade (1980)
White Meat (1981)
The Marvellous Boy (1982)
The Empty Beach (1983)
Heroin Annie (1984)
Make Me Rich (1985)
The Big Drop (1985)
Deal Me Out (1986)
The Greenwich Apartments (1986)
The January Zone (1987)
Man in the Shadows (1988)
O’Fear (1990)
Wet Graves (1991)
Aftershock (1991)
Beware of the Dog (1992)
Burn, and Other Stories (1993)
Matrimonial Causes (1993)
The Washington Club (1997)
Forget Me If You Can (1997)
The Reward (1997)
The Black Prince (1998)
The Other Side of Sorrow (1999)
Lugarno (2001)
Salt and Blood (2002)
Master’s Mates (2003)
The Coast Road (2004)
Taking Care of Business (2004)
Saving Billie (2005)
The Undertow (2006)
Appeal Denied (2007)
The Big Score (2007)
Open File (2008)
Deep Water (2009)
Torn Apart (2010)
Follow the Money (2011)
Comeback (2012)
The Dunbar Case (2013)
Silent Kill (2014)
Gun Control (2015)
That Empty Feeling (2016)
Win, Lose or Draw (2017)
Ray Crawley series (co-written with Bill Garner)
Pokerface (1985)
The Baltic Business (1988)
The Kimberley Killing (1989)
The Cargo Club (1990)
The Japanese Job (1992)
The Time Trap (1993)
The Vietnam Volunteer (2000)
Richard Browning series
‘Box Office’ Browning (1987)
‘Beverly Hills’ Browning (1987)
Browning Takes Off (1989)
Browning in Buckskin (1991)
Browning P.I. (1992)
Browning Battles On (1993)
Browning Sahib (1994)
Browning Without a Cause (1995)
Luke Dunlop series
Set Up (1992)
Cross Off (1993)
Get Even (1994)
Young Adult fiction
Blood Brothers (2007)
Historical fiction
The Gulliver Fortune (1989)
Naismith’s Dominion (1990)
The Brothers Craft (1992)
Wimmera Gold (1994)
The Journal of Fletcher Christian (2005)
Wishart’s Quest (2009)
The Colonial Queen (2011)
The Winning Side (1984)
A Round of Golf: Tales from around the greens (1998)
Standing in the Shadows: Three novellas (2013)
NON-FICTION
Biography
Fred Hollows: An autobiography (with Fred Hollows) (1991)
Fighting for Fraser Island: A man and an island (with John Sinclair) (1994)
Ray Barrett: An autobiography (with Ray Barrett) (1995)
Heart Matters: Personal stories about that heart-stopping moment (edited with Michael Wilding) (2010)
Damned if I Do (with Philip Nitschke) (2013)
Autobiography
Sweet & Sour: A diabetic life (2000)
True crime
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank killings (2011)
Sport
Lords of the Ring: A history of prize-fighting in Australia (1980)
The Picador Book of Golf (edited with Jamie Grant) (1995)
Ringside: A knockout collection of fights and fighters (edited with Barry Parish) (1996)
Best on Ground: Great writers on the greatest game (edited with John Dale) (2010)
Passage, Port and Plantation: A history of Solomon Islands labour migration, 1870–1914 (1973)
The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade by W.T. Wawn (edited by Peter Corris) (1973)
The Cruise of the Helena: A labour-recruiting voyage to the Solomon Islands by J.D. Melvin (edited by Peter Corris) (1977)
The Journal of John Sweatman: A nineteenth century surveying voyage in North Australia and Torres Strait (edited with Jim Allen) (1977)
Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita massacre (with Roger Keesing) (1980)