A list of Rachel McAlpine's books follows. Her publishers include Penguin New Zealand, Random House, Playmarket, Addison Wesley Longman, NZCER, Ten Speed, GP, Learning Media, Mallinson Rendel, Harper Collins, Tairyusha, and Asahi.

Fiction by Rachel McAlpine

2016 Fixing Mrs Philpott (Wellington, Booklovers)

2010 Scarlet Heels (Wellington, CC)

2005 Humming (Christchurch: Hazard)

1990 Farewell Speech (Auckland: Penguin); 1996 Translated into Japanese by Masako Meio (Tokyo: Shinsui-Sha)

1987 Running Away from Home (Auckland: Penguin)

1986 The Limits of Green (Auckland: Penguin)

Maria in the Middle (for children)

Poetry

2005 A for Blog (Wellington: CC)

2001 Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children (Ed.) (Auckland: Random House)

1993 Tourist in Kyoto (Wellington: Nutshell)

1988 Selected Poems (Wellington: Mallinson Rendel)

1986 Thirteen Waves (Palmerston North: Homeprint)

1983 Recording Angel (Wellington: Mallinson Rendel)

1980 House Poems (Wellington: Nutshell)

1978 Fancy Dress (Auckland: Cicada)

1977 Stay at the Dinner Party (Dunedin: Caveman)

1975 Lament for Ariadne (Dunedin: Caveman)

Stage Plays

2000 The Dazzling Night: a Noh play in English (Kyoto: Kyoto Journal & Auckland: NZ Journal of Asian Studies)

1990 Power Play (Wellington: Playmarket)

1988 Peace Offering (Auckland: Heinemanns)

1985 Driftwood (Wellington: Victoria University Press)

1980 The Stationary Sixth Form Poetry Trip (Wellington: Playmarket)

Selected Non-Fiction

2013 Business Writing Plus (Wellington: CC)

2009 Write Me a Web Page, Elsie! (Wellington: CC) Revised 2013

2000 Nine Winning Habits of Successful Authors (Wellington: CC)

1999 Crash Course in Corporate Communications (Wellington: CC) Revised 2006, 2009, 2011

1999 Web Word Wizardry (Wellington: CC; 2002 2nd edition. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed)

1998 The Passionate Pen: Romance Writers of New Zealand speak to Rachel McAlpine (Christchurch: Hazard)

1997 Global English for Global Business (Auckland: Addison Wesley Longman; reprinted CC 2005)

1995 Ready for English (Wellington: Learning Media)

1995 Katherine Mansfield in New Zealand (Tokyo: Asahi)

1994 The Secret Life of New Zealand (Tokyo: Tairyusha)

1994 Masako in New Zealand (Tokyo: Tairyusha)

1992 Real Writing (Wellington: GP Publications)

1980 Song in the Satchel: Poetry in the High School (Wellington: NZCER)