fiction

Cancellanda

Trans. Marcella Romeo Lovison (Palermo: Quattrosoli, 2004)

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The Leto Bundle

a novel, 2001 Chatto & Windus, UK Farrar Straus Giroux (US) 2002 Vintage (paperback) UK, Simon & Schuster (hardback) US

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Murderers I Have Known

a collection of stories, published by Chatto & Windus Published in paperback by Vintage, 2004

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Wonder Tales

Six French Stories of Enchantment Vintage (paperback) UK; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (hardback & paperback) US

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Indigo

l992 (Translated into Dutch, German, French.) Vintage (paperback) UK; Simon & Schuster (hardback) US

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The Skating Party

l982, Vintage (paperback) UK

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The Lost Father

l987, (Regional Winner (Eurasia) in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, Booker Prize shortlist; translated into Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian and French.). Vintage (paperback) UK; Simon & Schuster (hardback) US. To be repu

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In a Dark Wood 

1977, Vintage (paperback) UK

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Mermaids in the Basement

l993 (Translated into French, some into German.) Vintage (paperback) UK

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Leto’s Flight

in Ovid Metamorphosed, ed Philip Terry, London: Chatto & Windus, 2000

Ariadne after Naxos

in The Secret Self, A century of short stories by women, ed Hermione Lee, London 1

The Legs of Queen Sheba

in Best Short Stories 1988, ed Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London, l989)

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The Wobbly Tooth 

(London, l984)

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The Impossible Day; The Impossible Night; The Impossible Bath; The Impossible Rocket

(London, l982-3)

The Crack in the Teacup

Britain in the Twentieth Century (London, l979)