Novels

• Night Letters: A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy Edited and Annotated by Igor Miazmov (1996)
• Secrets (1997)
• Corfu (2001)

Autobiography

• A Mother's Disgrace (1994)
• Arabesques : A Tale of Double Lives (2008)

Non-Fiction

• (And So Forth) (1998)
• Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev (2004)

Edited

• Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology (1993)
• Picador New Writing (1993)
• Speaking Their Minds: Intellectuals and the Public Culture in Australia (1998)
• The Best Australian Essays 2004 (2004)
• The Best Australian Essays 2005 (2005)

• NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction, 1994: A Mother's Disgrace - shortlisted
• Booksellers Choice Award, 1996: Night Letters : A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy Edited and Annotated by Igor Miazmov - joint winner
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 1997: Night Letters: A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy Edited and Annotated by Igor Miazmov - winner
• Colin Roderick Award, 1998: (And So Forth) - winner
• Waverley Library Award for Literature, 2005: Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev - shortlisted
• Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, 2005: Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev - winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, 2005: Twilight of Love : Travels with Turgenev - shortlisted
• Margaret Scott Prize, 2007: Twilight of Love : Travels with Turgenev - winner