Published Books

Road to Katmandu (1971 Macmillan; Putnam USA; 2005 Tauris Parke)

Nomads of the Sahel (1977 Minority Rights Group)

Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa (1980 Harcourt Brace USA; Cape)

Lourdes: A Modern Pilgrimage (1980 Heinemann; Coward McCann USA)

The Private Eye Story (1982 Andre Deutsch; Penguin)

So Far from God: A Journey to Central America (1985 Cape; Viking USA; 1996 Bloomsbury Classics)

Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan (1987 Viking; Penguin)

The Man Who Wasn’t Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (1992 Bloomsbury; Farrar Strauss USA)

Crime and the Académie Française (Essays) (1993 Viking; Penguin)

Dreaming with His Eyes Open: The Life of Diego Rivera (1998 Alfred Knopf USA; Bloomsbury)

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost (2000 John Murray; Pimlico). 

Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley (2007 Vintage)

Snake Dance (2013 Chatto & Windus; Vintage)

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France (2020 One World)

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Night Thoughts: The Spectator Bedside Book Ed. (1987 Chatto & Windus)

Darling Pol: The Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann Ed. (2017 Harvill Secker; Vintage)