2016 Emerald 2018 Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life 2020 Non-Fiction In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self 1992 Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness 1995 I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll 2000 Tigers in Red Weather 2005 Criticism, editing 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life 2002 The Poem and the Journey 2006 Silent Letters of the Alphabet 2010 Walter Ralegh, Selected Poems 2010 Alfred Lord Tennyson (Folio Society, Introduction and Notes) 2007 Gerard Manley Hopkins (Folio Society, Introduction) 2011 Fiction Padel's first novel Where the Serpent Lives(2010) focussed on nature, and also wildlife crime, mainly in India but also in Britain. It was praised for its vivid nature writing, intensely observed portrait of Indian forests and wildlife under threat, her innovative use of science and animal's eye viewpoint. 'Only Emily Brontë has embraced Padel’s radical and sympathetic inclusiveness of creaturely life.' 'She brings a poet’s intensity to her prose: objects, plants, and the wildlife that stalk her pages are all fiercely observed. Elephants and tigers under threat from poachers, forests felled for financial gain, corruption and uncaring officialdom result in habitats lost and species disappearing.' In India and UK, reviewers commented on the imaginative connections between nature, poetry and science. "She has done for the forests of Karnataka and Bengal what Amitav Ghosh did for the Sundarbans in The Hungry Tide." Her second novel, Daughters of the Labyrinth, set in London and Crete 2019-20, looks back to the Second World War and the little-known Holocaust of the Jews of Crete - where Padel has lived on and off since 1970. It also tells the story of the last synagogue on Crete, Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania. 'It is rare to come across literary fiction as satisfying as this. I had no idea there was a Jewish community on Crete or what had happened to them. Padel skilfully shows the lives of Cretan Jews deeply embedded in the island’s life, and, tragically, how cut off they were from what was happening to Jews on the Greek mainland. The whiff of authenticity seeps from every page,'(Jewish Chronicle). ‘An immersive novel steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling’(Sunday Times).‘Evocative, entrancing, a wonderfully rich and absorbing novel, delightful in its evocation of Crete and its many-layered history.’ Poetry