* The Life of the Novel (2010)
* On the Edge (1995)
* The Schoolhouse (1990)
* A Touch of Class (1985)
Short stories
- "Mrs. Morkan" (1991)
- "The Summerhouse" (1989)
Essays and articles
* "The Novel and the Nation" (2006)
* "The Aesthetics of Fiction" (2004)
* "The Modernist Novel and the Crisis of Representation" (2002)
* "The Short Story and the Art of Compression" (2000)
* "The Death of the Novel and the Rise of the Visual" (1998)
* "The Postmodern Novel and the Politics of Identity" (1996)
* "Gender and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel" (1994)
* "The Politics of Reading" (1992)
* "Literature and History: The Case of the Irish Novel" (1990)
Children's books
* The Adventures of Captain Pickles (2001)
* The Secret of the Lost Treasure (2002)
* The Magical World of Unicorns (2003)
Other
* The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006, co-edited with Richard Allen Cave)
* The Routledge Companion to the Modernist Novel (2010, co-edited with Karen Lawrence)