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