Parsons is the author of the novel "Man and Boy" (1999). He had previously written a number of novels including "The Kids" (1976), "Platinum Logic" (1981) and "Limelight Blues" (1983). Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – "One For My Baby" (2001), "Man and Wife" (2003), "The Family Way" (2004), "Stories We Could Tell" (2006), "My Favourite Wife" (2008), "Starting Over" (2009), "Men From the Boys" (2010), "The Murder Bag" (2014), and "The Slaughter Man" (2015). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the female 'Chick Lit'.