An Evening with Guy Stagg: Walking, Thinking, Writing
Walking, Thinking, Writing: turning a pilgrimage into The Crossway
Thursday 10th November at 7pm
In-person tickets start from £11. Dinner and book bundles are also available. Click here to order. View online tickets are £8. Click here to order.
In 2013 Guy Stagg walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. On the way he visited Rome and Istanbul, and every night he stayed with monks and nuns, priests and families. A non-believer himself, Guy nevertheless gained a unique perspective on contemporary religion. In his talk at Gladstone’s Library, he will describe not only the ten months he spent on the road - the places he visited, the people he met - but also explain the five-year process by which this walk became a book.
Guy Stagg is a writer and journalist. After a turbulent period in his life he decided to walk to Jerusalem in what would turn out to be a ten-month pilgrimage via Rome and Istanbul. His account of this time – 2018’s The Crossway – was awarded the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year in 2019 and has been called ‘a poignant and poetic book’.
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In-person tickets start from £11. Dinner and book bundles are also available. Click here to order. Dinner ticket holders are entitled to a two courses with hot drink.
View online tickets are £8. Click here to order.
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