• Head of Classics for one year at a school in Lancashire
• Classics master at Gresham's School, Holt from 1970 to 1979
• Lecturer in Greek and Roman literature, University of Reading

Books

• Building the Trireme (with appendix: The View from the Oarbench) (Constable, 1988)
• Polly Polestar (Ginn & Co., 1989)
• The Wrong Side of the Bed (Ginn & Co., 1988) ISBN 0-602-28462-7
• The Man in Black (1990)
• Where Are My Slippers? I Thought I Left Them Here Last Night (Pipesmoker Press, 1990)
• As Bernard Hinault Said To Me... (Portobello Press 1991)
• Arthur the King: a study of mediaeval romance in its social, literary and historical context (BBC Books, 1990) ISBN 0-563-21510-0
• George Francis: Trainer of Champions (with George Francis, Mainstream, 1998) ISBN 1-84018-059-5
• The Elderly Writer's Guide To Indifferent Young Women (Pip-Pip Publications, 1998)
• Tour de France: the history, the legend, the riders, the self-indulgent nonsense of a tedious old man (Mainstream, 1999) ISBN 1-84018-918-5
• Tour de France: Tour de Suffrance (translated from the French of Albert Londres, Cycle Sport, 1999)
• Inside the Peloton: Riding, Winning and Losing the Tour de France (2001) ISBN 1-84018-672-0
• The Ardoisier's Threnody: A Novel In Verse (Fowler & Tilkington, 2002)
• The Anklet Of Xerxes And Other Stories For Children (Baize, 2003)
• Up The Brahmaputra Without A Metaphor (unpublished, 2004)
• The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France 1792-1794 (2004) ISBN 0-7499-5005-6
• Bogota Bandit: The Outlaw Life of Charlie Mitten: Manchester United's Penalty King (with Richard Adamson, 2005) ISBN 1-84596-065-3
• Bob Chicken: A Passion for the Bike (2005) ISBN 0-9551225-0-3
• Massif: Guide to the great climbs of the Pyrenees (Rapha, 2006)
• The Beautiful Machine (2007 - in production) ISBN 1-84596-241-9

Plays

• Praise Be to God (Graeae Company, Orange Tree, London, 1987)
• Reg (1987)
• A Sandwich In Preston
• The Great French Revolution Show
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes (translated and adapted)
• Horses
• The Silver Nutmeg (musical, with Peter Thorne)
• Grimaldi (musical drama, with Peter Thorne)
• Once Upon a Time... (dramatic song sequence for narrator and singers, with Peter Thorne)
• The Andria (translation from The Andria of Terence, with Sebastian Eden) (Gresham's School)
• The Weaker Sex (Southampton)
• Gesualdo (Gresham's School; Edinburgh, London, Melbourne)
• Mr Shakespeare...Mr Liebowitz (Deià, Majorca)
• Jam (London, Edinburgh, Swindon)
• The Door (opera) France

Screenplays

• Chavasse Park (promotional film for architectural development in Liverpool)
• Ghosts of Deptford (six short films about celebrated denizens of Deptford)

Radio Scripts

• Elias Howe
• Thirty Stories, Monologues and Duologues
• Snipe 607
• Pheebil
• Earth to Earth
• Vivaldi
• The Whisper of the Axe
• Arthur the King
• La Mogador
• The March of the Ten Thousand
• The Misfortune at Seaham
• A Breath of Fresh Air
• Pearls Go with Pearls
• Godslots
• Surviving Wagner
• St Cecilia of Sicilia
• WILF
• Cat’s Whiskers
• The Figaro Letters
• The Athenian Trireme
• Doggett’s Coat and Badge
• Revolutionary Portraits
• The Night Stairs
• The Mrichhakatikaa (with Roger Elsgood and Willi Richards)
• Timbuktu: Drowning in Sand
• Vegetarian Cyclists
• Pause for Thought
• Bikesongs
• Bicycle Music
• The Fighting Temeraire
• Saint-Saens, Samson et Dalila and the Lost Glory
• The Fighting Temeraire, The Battle and the Breeze
• In Search of Saint-Saëns