Novels

• The Terror of Villadonga (1936) aka The Spanish Cave (novel for young adults)
• The Third Hour (1937)
• Rogue Male (1939) (filmed as Man Hunt,1941, and as the TV movie Rogue Male, 1976)
• Arabesque (1948)
• The High Place (1950)
• A Rough Shoot (1951) aka Shoot First
• A Time to Kill (1951)
• The Exploits of Xenophon (1955) aka Xenophon's Adventure (novel for young adults)
• Fellow Passenger (1955) aka Hang the Moon High
• Watcher in the Shadows (1960) (filmed for TV as Deadly Harvest, 1972)
• Thing to Love (1963)
• Olura (1965)
• The Courtesy of Death (1967)
• Prisoner of the Indies (1967) (novel for young adults)
• Dance of the Dwarfs (1968) (filmed as Dance of the Dwarfs, 1983)
• Doom's Caravan (1971)
• The Three Sentinels (1972)
• The Lives and Times of Bernardo Brown (1973)
• Red Anger (1975)
• The Cats to Come (1975) (novella)
• Escape into Daylight (1976) (novel for young adults)
• Hostage London: The Diary of Julian Despard (1977)
• The Last Two Weeks of Georges Rivac (1978)
• The Sending (1980)
• Summon the Bright Water (1981)
• Rogue Justice (1982) (a sequel to Rogue Male)
• Arrows of Desire (1985)
• Face to the Sun (1988)

Short Story Collections

• The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories (1938)
• Tales of Adventurers (1952)
• The Brides of Solomon and Other Stories (1958)
• Sabres on the Sand (1966)
• The Europe That Was (1979)
• Capricorn and Cancer (1981)
• The Days of Your Fathers (1987)

Autobiography

• Against the Wind (1958)

• The Lives and Times of Geoffey Household by Michael Barber, in Books and Bookmen (January 1974)
• St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, ed. by Jay P. Pederson (1996)
• World Authors 1900-1950, vol. 2, ed. by Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens (1996)