Bibliography
- Fiction
- Alice through the Needle's Eye (1984)
- Peter Pan and the Only Children (1987)
- The Holy Innocents (1988) - winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award
- Love and Death on Long Island (1990)
- The Death of the Author (1992) - a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a metaphysical murder mystery
- The Key of the Tower (1997)
- A Closed Book (1999) - a literary thriller about a prize-winning novelist left blind after a serious car accident.
- The Dreamers (2003) - a tale of sexual obsession set against the backdrop of the Paris street riots of 1968
- Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires (2003) - the story of Gideon, a young Englishman in 1980s Paris, on the verge of sexual discovery
- The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2006) - a murder mystery set in the 1930s on Dartmoor, first in the Evadne Mount trilogy
- A Mysterious Affair of Style (2007) - second in the Evadne Mount trilogy
- And Then There Was No One (2009) - third in the Evadne Mount trilogy
- Non-fiction
- A Night at the Pictures (with Nick Roddick) (1985)
- Myths & Memories (1986)
- Hollywood's Vietnam (1981)
- The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice (1992)
- Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (editor with Marina Warner) (1995)
- Flickers (1995)
- Surfing the Zeitgeist (1997)
- Movies (editor) (1999)
- The Real Tadzio (2001) - a biography of the boy (Baron Władysław Moes) who inspired Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.
- Translations
- Letters by François Truffaut (1990) (also editor)
- A Void by Georges Perec (1994) — winner of the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize
- Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (2000) (introduction)
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