Academic publications
Our Experience of Language (1971,
Batsford)
Designs in Prose: A Study in Compositional
Problems and Methods (1980, Longman)
The Language of Humour: Style and Technique in
Comic Discourse (1985, Longman)
English Usage: A Guide to First
Principles (1986, Routledge)
Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion (1989,
Blackwell)
Language in Popular Fiction (1990,
Routledge)
Seeing Through Language: A Guide to Styles of
English Writing (with Ronald Carter) (1990,
Blackwell)
The Writing Scholar: Studies in Academic
Discourse (1990, Sage)
An Uncommon Tongue: The Uses and Resources of
English (1992, Routledge)
Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses (1993,
Blackwell)
Creating Texts: An Introduction to the Study of
Composition (with David Stacey) (1997, Longman)
Language and Creative Illusion (1998,
Longman)
A Departed Music: Readings in Old English
Poetry (2006, Anglo-Saxon Books)
Creative and autobiographical writing
Kettle of Roses (1982, Hutchinson)
The Day of the Airship (2001: First
Century /Cromwell).
East West Risen (2002, Feather
Books)
Of Time and Small Islands (2006,
Beyond the Cloister)
For Old Times Sake: Childhood in the
1930s (2007, Bright Pen [colophon of Authors
Online])
In Good Faith (2007, Feather
Books)
Memorabilia: Poems from time to time
(2009, Beyond the Cloister)