The Year of Henry James: The story of a novel: With other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction

Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

Write On: Occasional Essays

The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays

The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

Lectures on Literature

The Practice of Writing

Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

The Art of Fiction

Dickens the Designer

Varying Degrees of Success: A Memoir 1992-2020

Lectures on Russian Literature

The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel, Edition 2

Among My Books. Second Series: Enriched edition. Exploring Literary Masterpieces: Essays on Classic Authors and Poetry Analysis

Consciousness and the Novel

Horror in the Age of Steam: Tales of Terror in the Victorian Age of Transitions

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction

The Black Tulip