​Marina Warner in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi about her latest book

​Join the EXPeditions book club! Each month, we read a book written by one of the authors featured on the platform. Each session is moderated by the readers themselves. 

​Marina Warner will join us and answer your questions about her latest book SANCTUARY, in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi.

​Date: March 30th 2026 @ 7 PM (UK)

​Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling

​Sanctuary is an ancient right. It both promises and is a haven.  It is a place of refuge and of freedom from harm. 

​With brilliance and erudition, the distinguished cultural historian Marina Warner teases out the principles that govern the ancient tradition of sanctuary.  Crucially, she also asks, could a revived practice of sanctuary today offer security and a home for the displaced. This is a groundbreaking book which explores the principles that underpin the tradition of ‘sanctuary’. It was written alongside work with the Stories in Transit project bringing young refugees together with artists, writers and musicians in the UK and in Sicily to invent or reimagine stories and perform them. 

​Warner reflects on the ways stories address the worst experiences of humanity, and argues that the act of storytelling offers a salve, a route to a site of mutual interaction and understanding, a new place of belonging and conviviality. 

​You can buy the book on this link via Bookshop.org.

​Marina Warner on EXPeditions

​Marina has authored 3 EXPs:

​Discovering the invisible through art. [link]

​Right from the first drawings on cave walls, we see art as a way of encapsulating, crystallising, making experiences through our eyes and capturing them in a permanent form.

​Making art : from play to power [link]

​There is a way in which the current of imagination, as it flows into a work of art, is a form of play – and that is essential to human well-being. 

​The power of art [link]

​The extraordinary thing is that a recognition of the power of art comes most strongly from those who want to destroy it.

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