• Forty-Seventeen (1988) which won The Age Book of the Year Award and the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal.
• Dark Palace (2000) won the Miles Franklin Award.
• The writer in a time of terror appearing in Griffith Review Edition 14: The Trouble With Paradise (2007) won the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award as well as the award for Social Equity Journalism in The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism

Short stories (or 'discontinuous narratives')

• Futility and Other Animals (1969)
• The Americans, Baby (1972)
• The Electrical Experience (1974)
• Tales of Mystery and Romance (1977)
• The Everlasting Secret Family (1980)

Novels

• Conference-ville (a novella, 1976)
• Forty-Seventeen (1988)
• Grand Days (1993)
• Dark Palace (2000)

Humour and memoir

• Room Service (1985)
• Late Shows (1990)
• Loose Living (1995)
• Despatches from the Office (2002)
• A Memoir (2005)

Anthologies

• Coast to Coast (1973)
• Days of Wine and Rage (1980)
• The State of the Art
• Fictions 88
• Best Australian Stories (2004 and 2005)

Criticism

• The Writer as an Artist by Pradeep Trikha (2001)

Short films

• The American Poet's Visit (1969)
• The Girl from the Family of Man (1970)
• The Machine Gun (1971).

Feature films

• The American Poet's Visit (1969)
• The Girl from the Family of Man (1970)
• The Machine Gun (1971)
• Between Wars (1974)
• The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris (1980)
• The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
• The Ever-Lasting Secret Family (1988)

Docudrama

• Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983)