Publications: Recently published
The Shelter of Stories: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling (2025)
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Shelter of Stories, on show at Compton Verney 25 October 2025 – 22 February 2026. It is available to buy on the Compton Verney webshop and at the gallery’s gift shop. The catalogue features essays, poems an …
Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling (2025)
Published by HarperCollins, July 2025 Sanctuary is an ancient right– a haven, a place of refuge and freedom from harm. In the classical world, it offered immunity to fugitives from justice; in medieval Europe it extended a reprieve to all who sought sa …
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms (2025)
Marina has contributed an interview with Dine Diallo, of Giocherenda, to Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, a book emerging from a three day gathering in September 2019. The CRASSH project (Migrant knowledge, early modern and beyond) …
Temporale (2023)
What happened to time during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdowns? Acclaimed novelist and essayist Marina Warner recounts how strangely her days and weeks passed, in this highly personal account of a response to lockdown in which she delves into her expe …
Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court (2022)
An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick’s erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954–1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exh …
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021)
Inventory of a Life Mislaid (March 4th, 2021) First published by HarperCollins in the UK, Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her hus …