Sanctuary

EARLY PRAISE FOR SANCTUARY

‘Dazzlingly protean… an ambitious meditation on the ability of narrative to shape our perceptions of one another and our experience of home. Warner sets out to explore and expand what “sanctuary” means in an age when millions are on the move around the world, chased out of their homes by environmental disaster, economic collapse, war and political oppression… an exquisitely attuned reading of the situation’

Guardian

‘Sanctuary is without doubt an imaginative and meticulous work of scholarship, underpinned by context in Warner’s passionately sincere commitment to the issues she raises’

Daily Telegraph

PRAISE FOR MARINA WARNER’S INVENTORY OF A LIFE MISLAID

‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words’

Jenny Uglow

‘A captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents’ improbable marriage’

Ferdinand Mount

‘An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warner’s most beautiful works’

Michèle Roberts

‘Moving and original … Warner’s view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic’

Catriona Seth

‘A poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents’ marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … Evocative’

Margaret Drabble

‘High-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives’

Literary Review

Marina Warner’s study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.