Street Sleeper - novel, 1987

A Knot Garden -  novel, 1989

What We Did On Our Holidays - novel, 1990  (now made into a movie called Permanent Vacation)

Big Noises, Rock Guitar in the 1990s - non-fiction, 1991

Hunters and Gatherers – novel, 1991

The Food Chain - novel, 1992

The Errol Flynn Novel - novel, 1993

Day Trips to the Desert - travel, 1993

Still Life With Volkswagens – novel, 1994

Everything and More - novel, 1994

Footsucker- novel, 1995

Bleeding London - novel, 1997 (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize)

Flesh Guitar - novel, 1998

Female Ruins - novel, 1999

Bedlam Burning - novel, 2000

The Hollywood Dodo - novel, 2004

Sex Collectors - non-fiction, 2006

The Lost Art of Walking - non-fiction, 2008

Gravity’s Volkswagen, 2009