books by subject
Essays

Illuminations

Mirth of a Nation: 15 Years of Humour in the "Mail" & "Guardian"

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

Scarman and After: Essays Reflecting on Lord Scarman's Report, the Riots and Their Aftermath

Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx

Crediting Poetry

The Sea Inside

High Tide in Tucson: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse - A Conducted Tour

Unsuitable for Ladies An Anthology of Women Travellers

War Talk

The Secret Diary of a New Mum (aged 43 1/4)

The Periodic Table

What's Really Going On Here?: Making Sense of our Emotional Lives

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

The Man Who Died (Paper)

Shakespeare's Montaigne

Journal

Six Facets Of Light

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

Life's Handicap: Being Stories Of Mine Own People (Rudyard Kipling centenary editions)

With Passport and Parasol

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays

The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact

The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005
