• Bessie Smith: Lives of Modern Women Series Penguin/Viking
• 1987:A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva Hutchinson
• 1993: Lawrence's Women HarperCollins, London, 1993;
• as Lawrence and The Women, New York, 1993
• 1998: Pushkin Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Ecco, U.S.
• 2001: Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001
• 2005: Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005; Knopf, 2006

Poetry

• 1966: In a Green Eye, London, Goliard Press
• 1971: The Magic Apple Tree, London, Hutchinson
• 1972: At the Edge, Sceptre Press
• 1973: The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson
• 1977: Some Unease and Angels, Hutchinson; reprinted, 1981
• 1977: Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press
• 1980: The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/ Next Editions
• 1987: Badlands, Hutchinson
• 1990: City Music, Hutchinson
• 1994: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press
• 1997: Daylight, Carcanet Press
• 1999: After Pushkin, (edited by Elaine Feinstein) Folio Society & Carcanet Press
• 2000: Gold Carcanet Press
• 2002: Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet Press
• 2007: Talking to the Dead, Carcanet Press

Translated poetry

• 1961: The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Oxford University Press:
• Second edition, 1971
• Third edition, Hutchinson, 1987
• 1976: Three Russian Poets: Margarita Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina, Manchester: Carcanet Press
• 1999 (fifth edition): The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, (with new poems and a new introduction) Oxford University Press/Carcanet Press

Novels

• 1970: The Circle London, Hutchinson (Penguin 1973)
• 1972: The Amberstone Exit, London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1974); translated into Hebrew (Keter 1984)
• 1973: The Glass Alembic, as The Crystal Garden London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1978); New York, Dutton, 1974
• 1975: Children of the Rose, London, Hutchinson; (Penguin 1976); translated into Hebrew, 1987
• 1976: The Ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, London, Hutchinson
• 1978: The Shadow Master, London, Hutchinson, 1978; New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979
• 1982: The Survivors, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
• 1984: The Border, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1985
• 1988: Mother's Girl, London, Hutchinson; shortlisted for 1990 Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
• 1989: All You Need, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
• 1992: Loving Brecht, London, Hutchinson
• 1994: Dreamers, London, Macmillan
• 1996: Lady Chatterley's Confession, London, Macmillan
• 2001: Dark Inheritance, London, Women's Press
• 2008: The Russian Jerusalem, Manchester, Carcanet Press.

Radio plays

• 1980: "Echoes"
• 1981: "A Late Spring"
• 1983: "A Day Off"
• 1985: "Marina Tsvetayeva: A Life"
• 1987: "If I Ever Get On My Feet Again"
• 1990: "The Man in Her Life"
• 1993: "Foreign Girls, a trilogy"
• 1994: "A Winter Meeting"
• "Lawrence's Women in Love" (four-part adaptation)
• 1996: Adaptation of novel, Lady Chatterley's Confession Book at Bedtime

Short stories

• 1972: Matters of Chance, London, Covent Garden Press
• 1980: The Silent Areas, London, Hutchinson

• 1970: Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
• 1971: Daisy Miller Prize
• 1979: Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
• 1981: Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
• 1981: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1990: Cholmondeley Award
• 1992: Society of Authors Travel Award
• 2004: Arts Council Award to write THE RUSSIAN JERUSALEM (May 27, 2008)