1. The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) 

1. Il rubino di fumo (Salani) 

2. The Shadow in the North (1986) aka The Shadow in the Plate

2. L’ombra nel nord (Salani) 

3. The Tiger in the Well (1990)

3. La tigre nel pozzo (Salani) 

4. The Tin Princess (1994)

4. La principessa di latta (Salani)

Series: The New Cut Gang

1. Thunderbolt's Waxwork (1994)

2. The Gas-Fitters' Ball (1995)

Series: His Dark Materials

Serie: Queste oscure materie

1. Northern Lights (1995) aka The Golden Compass

1. La bussola d’oro (Salani)

3. The Amber Spyglass (1999)

3. Il cannocchiale d’ambra (Salani)

4. Lyra's Oxford (2003)

4. La Oxford di Lyra (Salani)

Novels

Romanzi

The Haunted Storm (1972)

Galatea (1976)

Count Karlstein (1982)

Il conte Karlstein e la leggenda del demone cacciatore (Salani)

How to Be Cool (1987)

 Troppo giusto! (Mondadori)

Spring-heeled Jack (1989)

The Broken Bridge (1990)

 Il ponte spezzato (Salani)

The White Mercedes (1992)

The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1993)

Clockwork: or All Wound Up (1995)

L’orologio meccanico (Mondadori)

The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995)

La fabbricante di fuochi d’artificio (Salani)

Mossycoat (1998)

The Butterfly Tattoo (1998)

I Was a Rat!: or The Scarlet Slippers (1999)

Ero un topo (Salani)

Puss in Boots: or The Ogre, the Ghouls and the Windmill (2000)

The Scarecrow And His Servant (2004)

Lo spaventapasseri e il suo servitore (Salani)

Plays

Teatro

Frankenstein (1990)

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror (1992)

Picture books

Libri illustrati

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (2005)

Anthologies edited

Antologie curate

Detective Stories (1998)

Non-fiction

Saggi

Ancient Civilizations (1978)

Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary (1979)

Meetings with the Minister: Five Children's Authors on the National Literacy Strategy (2003) (with Bernard Ashley, Anne Fine, Jamila Gavin, Chris Powling)

Introduzione all’edizione Oxford University Press del Paradise Lost di John Milton (2005)