• 2004 — Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel for Degrees of Connection
• 1996 — Ned Kelly Awards Lifelong Contribution to the Crime, Mystery and Detective Genres
• 1975 — Edgar Award for Peter's Pence

Novels

• You Can't See Round Corners (1947)
• The Long Shadow (1949)
• Just Let Me Be (1950)
• The Sundowners (1952)
• The Climate of Courage (1954)
• Justin Bayard (1955) (aka Dust in the Sun)
• The Green Helmet (1957)
• Back of Sunset (1959)
• North From Thursday (1960)
• The Country of Marriage (1962)
• Forests of the Night (1963)
• A Flight of Chariots (1963)
• The Fall of an Eagle (1965)
• The High Commissioner (1966)
• The Pulse of Danger (1966)
• The Long Pursuit (1967)
• Season of Doubt (1968)
• Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)
• Helga's Web (1970)
• Mask of the Andes (1971) (aka The Liberators)
• Man's Estate (1972) (aka The Ninth Marquess)
• Ransom (1973)
• The safe House (1975)
• Peter's Pence (1975)
• A Sound of Lightning (1976)
• High Road to China (1977)
• Vortex (1979)
• The Beaufort Sisters (1979)
• A Very Private War (1980)
• The Faraway Drums (1981)
• The Golden Sabre (1981)
• Spearfield's Daughter (1982)
• The Phoenix Tree (1984)
• The City of Fading Light (1985)
• Dragons at the Party (1987)
• Now and Then, Amen (1988)
• Babylon South (1989)
• You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be)
• Murder Song (1990)
• Pride's Harvest (1991)
• Dark Summer (1992)
• Bleak Spring (1993)
• Autumn Maze (1994)
• Winter Chill (1995)
• Endpeace (1996)
• Five Ring Circus (1998)
• A Different Turf (1998)
• Dilemma (1999)
• Bear Pit (2000)
• Yesterday's Shadow (2001)
• The Easy Sin (2002)
• Degrees of Connection (2003)
• Miss Ambar Regrets (2004)
• Morning's Gone (2006)
• Four-Cornered Circle (2007)

Short story collections

• These Small Glories (1946)

Film adaptations

• Dust in the Sun (Justin Bayard) (1958), starring Jill Adams and Ken Wayne
• The Sundowners (1960), starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov
• The Green Helmet (1961), starring Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Sid James and Nancy Walters
• Nobody Runs Forever (The High Commissioner) (1968), starring Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer and Camilla Sparv
• You Can't See Round Corners (1969) (adaptation of television series), starring Ken Shorter, Rowena Wallace and Carmen Duncan
• Scobie Malone (Helga's Web) (1975), starring Jack Thompson, Judy Morris, Shane Porteous and Jacqueline Kott
• High Road to China (1983), starring Bess Armstrong and Tom Selleck.

Television sdaptations

• You Can't See Round Corners (1967), starring Ken Shorter, John Armstrong, Rowena Wallace and Carmen Duncan
• Spearfield's Daughter (1986) (mini series), starring Christopher Plummer, Nancy Marchand, Kim Braden and Steve Railsback.