• Hill of Fearn

Novels

• White Maa's Saga (1929)
• Poet's Pub (1929)
• Juan in America (1931)
• The Men of Ness (1932)
• The Crusader's Key (1933)
• Magnus Merriman (1934)
• Ripeness is All (1935)
• The Impregnable Women (1938)
• Judas (1939)
• Private Angelo (1946) - war satire. ISBN 0-907675-61-1
• A Spell for Old Bones (1949)
• Mr Byculla (1950)
• The House of Gair (1953)
• The Dark of Summer (1956)
• A Man Over Forty (1963)
• A Terrible Freedom (1966)
• The Faithful Ally (1956)

Drama

• The Devil's in the News (1929)

Poetry

• A Dragon Laughed & other poems (1930)

Children's fiction

• The Wind on the Moon (1944)
• The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949)

Other

• Juan in China
• Ben Jonson and King James: Biography and Portrait) (1931)
• Ripeness is All (1935)
• The Man on My Back (1941) autobiography
• Laxdale Hall (1951)
• Figures in a Landscape (1952)
• A Year of Space (1953) travel
• A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits - (1957) stories
• The Merry Muse (1959)
• Orkney and Shetland (1965)
• The Conquest of England (1966)
• The Survival of Scotland (1968) - history of Scotland's independence
• The Voyage of the Challenger (1972)
• The Campaign in Italy
• The Highland Division
• The Goose Girl and Other Stories
• The Northern Garrisons (1941)