- Who Calls the Tune? (1953)
- The Old Flamingo (1954)
- Change Here for Babylon (1955)
- The Solitary Child (1956)
- Devil by the Sea (1958)
- Just Like a Lady (1960)
- In Honour Bound (1961)
- The Secret Passage (1963)
- Tortoise by Candlelight (1963)
- The House of Secrets (1963)
- On the Run (1964); US title, Three on the Run
- Under the Skin (1964)
- A Little Love, A Little Learning (1965)
- The White Horse Gang (1966)
- The Witch's Daughter (1966)
- A Handful of Thieves (1967)
- A Woman of My Age (1967)
- The Grain of Truth (1969)
- The Runaway Summer (1969)
- The Birds on the Trees (1970)
- Squib (1971)
- Anna Apparent (1972)
- Carrie's War (1973) —winner of the 1993 Phoenix Award
- George Beneath a Paper Moon (1974)
- The Peppermint Pig (1975) —winner of the 1976 Guardian Prize
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- Afternoon of a Good Woman (1976)
- Solitary Child (1976)
- Rebel on a Rock (1978)
- Familiar Passions (1979)
- The Robbers (1979)
- Walking Naked (1981)
- William Tell (1981), a picture book
- Kept in the Dark (1982)
- The Ice House (1983)
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1983), a picture book
- The Finding (1985)
- On the Edge (1985)
- Princess Alice (1986)
- Circles of Deceit (1987)
- Henry (1988)
- Keeping Henry (1988)
- The Outside Child (1989)
- Family Money (1991)
- Humbug (1992)
- The Real Plato Jones (1993)
- In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (1994)
- Granny the Pag (1995)
- A Nice Change (1997)
- Off the Road (1998)
- The Ruffian on the Stair (2001)
- Dear Austen (2005)
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