| Novels |
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| Ezra Pound and His World |
1980 |
| The Great Fire of London |
1982 |
| The Last Will and Testament of Oscar Wilde |
1983 |
| The House of Doctor Dee |
1983 |
| Hawksmoor |
1985 |
| Milton in America |
1986 |
| Chatterton |
1987 |
| First Light |
1989 |
| English Music |
1992 |
| Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree |
1994 |
| The Plato Papers |
1999 |
| The Clerkenwell Tales |
2003 |
| The Lambs of London |
2004 |
| The Fall of Troy |
2006 |
| The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein |
2008 |
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| Collections |
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| London Lickpenny |
1973 |
| Country Life |
1978 |
| The Diversions of Purley |
1987 |
| The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures |
2001 |
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| Non-Fiction Series |
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| Voyages Through Time |
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| Escape From Earth |
2003 |
| In The Beginning |
2003 |
| Cities of Blood |
2004 |
| Kingdom of the Dead |
2004 |
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| Non-Fiction |
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| Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism |
1976 |
| Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag |
1979 |
| T. S. Eliot |
1984 |
| Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision |
1987 |
| Dickens |
1990 |
| Blake: A Biography |
1995 |
| The Life of Thomas More |
1998 |
| London: The Biography |
2000 |
| Turner |
2002 |
| Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination |
2002 |
| The English Imagination |
2002 |
| The Mystery of Charles Dickens |
2002 |
| Illustrated London |
2003 |
| Brief Lives - Chaucer |
2004 |
| Shakespeare: A Biography |
2004 |
| The Thames |
2007 |
| Poe: A Life Cut Short |
2008 |
| Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives |
2008 |
