 Wood likes to compose slowly and he typically prefers chamber music genres, though several of his large-scale works, such as his Symphony and Violin Concerto, are amongst his best known.In recent years he has contributed several articles on music to "The Times Literary Supplement".In 2007 his collected writings on music, "Staking Out the Territory" was published by Plumbago Books and the following year Ashgate Books published "The Music of Hugh Wood" by Edward Venn.