LIST OF WORKS
LIST OF WORKS
Novels, novellas, stories
EATING PEOPLE IS WRONG [novel].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1959; New York, Knopf, 1960. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1962. Reissued with new intro., Secker, 1976. London, Arrow, 1978, Arena, 1984, Vintage, 1990, Penguin, 1993; Chicago, Academy, 1986 {paperback reissues}. Many foreign translations. BBC "Book at Bedtime" (1982). Now published by Picador.
STEPPING WESTWARD [novel].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1965. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968. Reissued with new intro., Secker, 1983. London, Arrow, 1979, Arena, 1984, Penguin, 1993 {paperback reissues}. Various foreign translations. BBC "Storytime" (1984). Now published by Picador.
THE HISTORY MAN [novel].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1975. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. "Observer" Classic of the Month Library, 1981. London, Arrow, 1979, Arena, 1984; Vintage, 1990, Penguin, 1993; New York, Penguin, 1985 {paperback reissues}. Picador, 2000. Many foreign translations. Adapted for TV in 4 parts by Christopher Hampton, 1980. Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize for Fiction, 1975. Now published by Picador.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? [stories and parodies].
Contents: "A Goodbye for Evadne Winterbottom," "A Very Hospitable Person," "Who Do You Think You Are?", "The Adult Education Class," "Nobody Here in England," "A Breakdown," "Composition" {stories] and "Dodos Among the Elephants," "An Extravagant Fondness for the Love of Women," A Jaundiced View," "Tough at the Top," "Last Things," "Voluptia," "Room at the Bottom," "Fritz" {parodies}. London, Secker & Warburg, 1976. London, Arrow, 1979. Reissued with two new items in Arena, 1984, revised Arena, 1986, Vintage, 1991, Penguin, 1993 {paperback reissues}. Many stories reprinted variously. Now published by Picador.
RATES OF EXCHANGE [novel].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1983. New York, Knopf, 1983. London, Arena, 1984, Vintage, 1990, Penguin, 1992; New York, Penguin, 1985 {paperback reissues]. Picador, 2000. Many foreign translations. Shortlist, Booker Prize for Fiction, 1983. Now published by Picador.
CUTS: A VERY SHORT NOVEL [novella].
London, Century Hutchinson [Hutchinson "Novella" series], illust. by Tom Phillips, 1987. London, Arena, 1988, Penguin, 1994; New York, Penguin, 1988 (paperback reissues). Numerous foreign translations. Now published by Picador.
DOCTOR CRIMINALE [novel].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. New York, Viking Penguin, 1992. London, Penguin, 1993; New York, Penguin, 1994 (paperback reissues). Many foreign translations. Now published by Picador.
TO THE HERMITAGE [novel].
London, Picador, 2000, paperback 2001. New York, Overlook Press, 2000. Now published by Picador.
LIAR'S LANDSCAPE: COLLECTED WRITING FROM A STORYTELLER'S LIFE, Edited by Dominic Bradbury.
[posthumous anthology, including incomplete novel]. London, Picador, 2006, paperback, 2007.
Poems
TWO POETS [poems, with Allan Rodway].
Nottingham, Byron Press, 1966.
Published Plays
THE AFTER DINNER GAME: THREE PLAYS FOR TELEVISION.
Contents: "The After Dinner Game" (with Chris Bigsby), "Love on a Gunboat," "Standing in for Henry." London, Arrow, 1982, Arena, 1984. Revised edition, Arena, 1989 (adds: "The Enigma," adapted from the story by John Fowles).
INSIDE TRADING, A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS, heavily adapted from the play JUGEND VORAN or HO-RUCK, by Paul Vulpius (1933).
London, Methuen Drama, 1997.
Works of Humour and Satire
PHOGEY: OR HOW TO HAVE CLASS IN A CLASSLESS SOCIETY [humour].
London, Max Parrish, 1960. {Also see below.}
ALL DRESSED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO [humour].
London, Max Parrish, 1962. {Also see below].
ALL DRESSED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO [humour].
London, Pavilion, 1982. London, Arrow, 1983, Arena, 1986, Vintage, 1991. {contains revised version of both of above titles.} Now published by Picador.
WHY COME TO SLAKA?: A GUIDEBOOK AND A PHRASEBOOK [humour].
London, Secker & Warburg, 1986. London, Arena, 1987, Penguin, 1992. New York, Penguin, 1988 {paperback reissues}.
MY STRANGE QUEST FOR MENSONGE, STRUCTURALISM'S HIDDEN HERO [satire].
London, Deutsch, 1987. New York, Penguin, 1988. Publ. as MENSONGE, Paris, Presses de la Renaissance, 1988. London, Arena, 1989, Penguin, 1993; New York, Penguin, 1989 {paperback reissues}.
UNSENT LETTERS [humour]. London, Deutsch, 1988.
New York, Viking Penguin, 1988. London, Arena, 1989, Penguin, 1995; New York, Penguin, 1989 {paperback reissues}.
THE NOVEL TODAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON MODERN FICTION [anthology of critical articles by major novelists, with analytic intro. and bibliography].
London, Fontana, 1977. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1977 [hardback]. Revised edition with new articles, London, Fontana, 1990.
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH SHORT STORIES [collection of 34 postwar stories, with intro.].
London/New York, Viking Penguin, 1987. London/New York, Penguin, 1988 {paperback reissue}
NEW WRITING: AN ANTHOLOGY [annual anthology of British new writing, with intro.]
Edited with Judy Cooke. London, Minerva, 1992. {Hard and paper.}
NEW WRITING 2. Edited with Andrew Motion.
London, Minerva, 1993.
PRESENT LAUGHTER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN COMIC FICTION.
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994; Phoenix Giant, paperback, 1995.
CLASS WORK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UEA STORIES.
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Sceptre, paperback, 1996.
THE ATLAS OF LITERATURE.
London and New York, De Agostini, 1996. [Foreign translations.]