Autobiography

• Three Rivers - A Memoir. Daffodil Press (2003) ISBN 0-954522-80-X

Novels

• The Sea Hath Bounds. A.P.B. Bookstore (1946) later published as A Grove of Fever Trees, Houghton Mifflin (1950), Jonathan Cape (1951).
• Mittee. Victor Gollancz (1951), Houghton Mifflin (1952), Chameleon Press (1987), Penguin Books (1991), Toby Press (2007)
• Ratoons. Victor Gollancz and Houghton Mifflin (1953) Chameleon Press (1987), Toby Press (2007)
• Wizards' Country. Victor Gollancz and Houghton Mifflin (1957), Chameleon Press (1987) Toby Press (2007)
• Beti. Victor Gollancz and Houghton Mifflin (1959).
• A Lover for Estelle. Victor Gollancz and Houghton Mifflin (1961).
• The Greyling. Victor Gollancz (1962), Reynal (1963).
• Diamond Jo. Victor Gollancz and Reynal (1965).
• Boy on the Mountain. Victor Gollancz (1969).
• Margaretha de la Porte. Victor Gollancz (1974).

Short Stories

• "The Friends," in South African Stories, edited by David Wright. Faber & Faber and Duell (1960).
• "Fikizolo," in Over the Horizon. Victor Gollancz (1960).

Children's Books

• The South African Twins. Jonathan Cape (1953); as Twins in South Africa, Houghton Mifflin (1955).
• The Australian Twins. Jonathan Cape (1954); as Twins in Australia, Houghton Mifflin (1956).
• New Zealand Twins. Jonathan Cape (1957).
• Double Ex!. Victor Gollancz (1971).
• A Horse of His Own. Victor Gollancz (1976).

• Orville Prescott, in the New York Times, March 1, 1950
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher, in the Book-of-the-Month News (New York), January 1952
• Sylvia Stallings, in the New York Herald Tribune, December 20, 1953
• Paul Scott, in Country Life (London), May 24, 1962
• R.W Johnson, in the Times Literary Supplement (London), July 5, 2006