Tiểu thuyêt

• Memory of Departure (1987)[11]
• Pilgrims Way (1988)[12]
• Dottie (1990)[13]
• Paradise (1994)[14] (được đưa vào sanh sách ngắn cho giải Booker[15] và giải Whitbread[15])
• Admiring Silence (1996)[16]
• By the Sea (2001)[14] (được đưa vào sanh sách dài cho giải Booker;[17] vào danh sách ngắn cho giải sách Los Angeles Times[17])
• Desertion (2005)[18]
• The Last Gift (2011)[19]
• Gravel Heart (2017)[20]
• Afterlives (2020)[21]

Truyện ngắn

• "Cages" (1984), in African short stories. Ed. by Chinua Achebe and Catherine Lynette Innes. Heinemann Education. ISBN 9780435902704
• "Bossy" (1994), in African rhapsody: Short stories of the contemporary African Experience. Ed. by Nadežda Obradović. Anchor Books. ISBN 9780385468169
• "Escort" (1996), in Wasafiri, vol. 11, no. 23, 44-48. doi:10.1080/02690059608589487
• "The Photograph of the Prince" (2012), in Road stories : new writing inspired by Exhibition Road. Ed. by Mary Morris. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. ISBN 9780954984847
• "My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa" (2006)[22]
• "The Arriver's Tale", Refugee Tales (2016)[23]
• "The Stateless Person’s Tale", Refugee Tales III (2019)[24]