Guy Stagg

The head of Buttermere and the foot of Fleetwith Pike

On Thursday evening next week I will be discussing my new book @Southwarkcathed with @DeanSouthwark. Do come! cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/the-w…

In the summer of 1920, Ludwig Wittgenstein spent two months working as an assistant gardener at Klosterneuburg, a wealthy monastery to the north of Vienna. At the start of summer he was suicidally depressed, but these months proved a turning point in Wittgenstein's life.

My @thetimes review of @GuyStagg's The World Within - "What can we learn from three great minds who retreated from the world?" (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, David Jones.) tinyurl.com/2wbhvsp3

'Stagg writes masterfully.' Pleased with this Times review of my new book, The World Within. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Loved speaking to @meta_nomad about my new book. Have been listening to @Hermitixpodcast for several years now, so delighted to be a guest on the show.

Excellent review of a recent biography of Lawrence Durrell @EngelsbergIdeas I tend to agree that his non-fiction is better than his fiction. Having grown up in the south of France, I've always had a fondness for "Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence" engelsbergideas.com/reviews/lawren…

Ghost window: a spectral trace in brick and flint. Every now and then I come across a scene that is utterly beautiful but not intended to be so...here at St. Lawrence, Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk.

The Alexandria Quartet may read as dated now, but Durrell's non-fiction helped foster our modern fascination with the Mediterranean and captured a world that disappeared in the age of mass tourism.