Works
Novels for children include: The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Babylon, Hengest's Tale, A Parcel of Patterns, Birdy and the Ghosties, Grace, Thomas and the Tinners, The Green Book, Goldengrove and its sequel Unleaving (Boston Globe/Horn Book prize for fiction, 1976), Gaffer Samson's Luck (Smarties Prizewinner 1985) and The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Whitbread Children's Prizewinner 1974).
Knowledge of Angels, a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. Other adult novels include:
- Lapsing (about Catholic university students)
- A School for Lovers (a reworking of the plot of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte)
- The Serpentine Cave (based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives)
- A Desert in Bohemia which follows a group of characters in England and in an imaginary Eastern European country through the years between World War II and 1989.
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