Fiction
MiStory (Frontpublishing, 2014)
I Am Always With You (Vintage, 2006)
White Shadows, Memories of Marienbad (Vintage, 2005)
To Each His Own (Hazard, 1999)
Dark of the Moon (1993)
Sam (Hodder & Stoughton, 1984)
Beak of the Moon (Collins, 1981)
Stations (Collins, 1979)
The Explorer (Hodder & Stoughton, 1975)
Creative Nonfiction
Life As A Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt: Volume Two 1973- 2004 (David Ling Publishers, 2021)
Life As A Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt: Volume One 1932–1973 (David Ling Publishers, 2018)
Chance is a Fine Thing (Memoir: Vintage, 2009)
The Last True Explorer: Into Darkest New Guinea (Memoir: Godwit, 2002)
New Zealand Explorers: Great Journeys of Discovery (Whitcoulls, 1985)
Editor
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems ([with Emma Neale] Otago UP, 2017)
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