* The Virtuous Wife (1980)
* The Last Hurrah (1983)
* Disappearances (1989)
* The Four Corners of the World (1994)
* The Sword of Tipu Sultan (1997)
Short Story Collections:
* Waiting for the Mahatma (1975)
* Stories of the Raj (1982)
* Selected Short Stories (1988)
Non-Fiction:
* Europe Revisited (1979)
* Asia: A Journey (1984)
* The Oxford Anthology of Sri Lankan Writing in English (1991)
* The Galle Fort: A Cultural History (1993)
* Sri Lankan Cinema: The Early Days (1995)
* The Wildlife of Sri Lanka (2000)
Poetry:
* Poems from the South (1973)
* The Invisible City (1976)
* Selected Poems (1990)