Books
- Bessie Smith: Lives of Modern Women Series Penguin/Viking
- A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva Hutchinson, 1987
- Lawrence's Women HarperCollins, London, 1993;
- Lawrence and The Women, New York, 1993
- Pushkin Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Ecco, U.S, 1998
- The Russian Jerusalem
- Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001
- Anna of all the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005; Knopf, 2006
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