Biographical

• Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia (2006)

Fiction

• Eastern Sure (1980)
• Downwind (1984)
• Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance (1984)
• Conventional Emotions (1985)
• The Dream Auditor: Short Stories (1986)
• Coming Up for Air (1988)
• The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (1989)
• Magnificent Obsessions (1991)
• The Ecstasy Conspiracy (1992)
• The Republic of Nothing (1994)
• World Enough (1998)
• The Summer of Apartment X (1999)
• Clear Cold Morning (2002)
• Shoulder the Sky (2002)
• Smoke and Mirrors (2004)
• The End Of The World As We Know It (2007)
• The Book of Michael (2008)

Non-fiction

• An Avalanche of Ocean (1987)
• December Six/The Halifax Solution (1988)
• Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist (1993)
• Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1997)
• The Coasts of Canada (2002)

Children's literature

• Skateboard Shakedown (1989)
• The Hungry Lizzards (1990)
• Wave Watch (1990)
• Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1991)
• Some Kind of Hero (1991)
• Margin of Error (1992)
• Clearcut Danger (1992)
• Full Tilt (1993)
• Good Idea Gone Bad (1993)
• The Dark End of Dream Street (1994)
• Big Burn (1995)
• Go For it Carrie (1997)
• Carrie's Crowd (1998)
• Famous at Last (1998)
• Roid Rage (1999)
• Far Enough Island (2000)
• Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001)

Poetry

• Re-Inventing the Wheel (1980)
• Fast Living (1982)
• The End of Ice (1985)
• To the Top of the Heart (1986)
• The Coastline of Forgetting (1995)
• Beautiful Sadness (1998)
• Caution to the Wind (2000)

• Long Lost Planet. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1996. (music/poetry)
• Sea Level. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1998. (music/poetry)