A few reviews are in for Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, which is now out and available to buy online / at your local bookshop / as an eBook

Rowan Williams: ‘[Sanctuary] documents a tight web of practices and ideals without which any culture is not only impoverished but also seriously damaged. Warner’s complex, cumulative engagement with the topic becomes itself a kind of migrant journey to whose rhythms the reader has to surrender.’; ‘The chapters on the ways in which stories create and re-create maps for our journeys through life are tantalising. They feel like short books in themselves, full of insights that demand long pondering.’; ‘This is a deeply engaging book, learned and sensitive, original, spare and strange.’ – Rowan Williams, ‘Scattered Stories’, Review for Literary Review July 2025

Stuart Kelly writes of Sanctuary that it is ‘ingenious and meticulous’; the project Stories in Transit ‘might seem modest, but given how shrill and vituperative the voices ranged against displaced people are it seems all the more necessary’; ‘Part of the exhilaration of reading any work by Warner is the breadth of reference. It is the opposite of dilettantism, a purposeful, sharp stitching’ – 29 June 2025, The Scotsman: Scotland on Sunday