- "Russia in Modern Times" (1973)
- "The Tower: Studies in the History and Decay of the Intellectual in Modern Europe" (1983)
- "Mussorgsky: His Life and Works" (1999)
- "The Masks of Nureyev" (2001)
- "The Age of the Grand Tour: The British Discovery of Europe in the 18th Century" (2006)
- "The Life and Death of Stalin: The Full Story of How He Came to Power and How He Died" (2006)
- "Russia: A Cultural History" (2006)
- "Tchaikovsky: A Biography" (2007)
- "The First Romanovs: 1613-1725: Tsars, Queens and the Making of the Russian Empire" (2011)
- "The Oxford Illustrated History of Music: General Editors Peter and Christopher Billington" (2012)
Documentaries:
- "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 '1905'" (2004)
- "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter" (2018)
- "The Romanov Empire" (2018)
- "The Lost World of the Romanovs" (2019)
- "The Lost World of the Romanovs: Peter the Great's Empire" (2020)
- "Peter the Great's Empire: Russia in the Time of Peter the Great" (2021)