A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.

Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-l...

Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement w...

From 1861 to 1908 a womanthe Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsiborn the daughter of a minor mandarinheld th...

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circums...

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in v...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers...

Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors tha...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers,...

A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.

A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature,...

Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of...

Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy t...

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imaginat...

Kötü kalpli kraliceden masum prensese, hain kurttan kirmizi baslikli kiza, ucan halilar, sihirli ...

An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. A...

'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW

What does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories fro...

Marina Warner spent her early years in Cairo, and was educated at a convent in Berkshire, and the...

A kaleidoscopic study of psychic phenomena and the power of the imagination, interweaving theolog...

In the beginning there was one language-one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an e...

Scheherazade's Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the ta...

'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW

The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. Thi...

Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abu...

Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklor...

Since establishing himself as a critically acclaimed landscape photographer in the 1970s, Fabian ...

'Esmond and Ilia follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves sou...

In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen ...

Cuentos de hadas : una introducción

The Cahiers Series continues its exploration of translation in all its aspects with this account ...

Yabanci Büyü

Performances, Videofilme und Installationen stehen bereits seit den 1960er-Jahren im Mittelpunkt ...