* _The Life of Jean Henri Durant de Bossan, 1738-1785_ (PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 1968)
* _The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: As Written by Himself_ (edited with J.H. Wilson and Angus Ross, Cambridge UP, 1988)
* _Daniel Defoe: A Bibliography of Secondary Works 1960-1986_ (Oak Knoll Books, 1987)
* _The Life and Work of William Cowper_ (Leicester University Press, 2001)
* _Daniel Defoe: A Bibliography of Secondary Works 1986-2010_ (The Voltaire Foundation, 2012)
* _William Cowper: A Bibliography_ (The Voltaire Foundation, 2016)
Journal articles and book chapters
* Over 50 articles and book chapters on Daniel Defoe, William Cowper, and other 18th-century authors.
Editions
* _Poems of William Cowper_ (Oxford World's Classics, 1996)
* _Robinson Crusoe: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism_ (WW Norton, 2nd edition, 1999)