Books
Academic:
- Apartheid and International Finance: A Programme for Change, Penguin, 1989. (With Tony Cole.)
Novels:
- Ratatui, 1984.
- O.E., 1986.
- The Greatest Sorrow, Penguin, 1998. ISBN 0-241-13977-5. (Set in Oxford.)
- Quick Bright Things, Hamish Hamilton, 2000. ISBN 0-241-14087-0
Biography:
- A Fighting Withdrawal. The Life of Dan Davin: Writer, Soldier, Publisher (1996).
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“My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look and practise by myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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