Jamie Lafferty

The front cover of the new issue of Geographical magazine

The review of An Inconvenience of Penguins

In the latest issue of @geographical.co.uk, I review travel writer Jamie Lafferty’s An Inconvenience of Penguins, an engaging, entertaining, often moving and frequently hilarious quest to see all 18 species of the ‘world’s most beloved birds’ in the wild.

YouTube video by UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Epic Voyages in Pursuit of Penguins

🐧 What a wonderful and fascinating webinar this evening from @antarcticheritage.bsky.social with @megaheid.bsky.social for #PenguinAwarenessDay.

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It’s almost a relief to see the line of enquiry live on

The 10 Best Books Of 2025 'Audition', 'Eurotrash', 'I Regret Almost Everything’ and more; here are the novels, memoirs and travelogues our editors loved reading this year

The wise kids at Time Out have included my book as one of the 10 best of 2025

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Hello. I'm writing about model (as in miniature) villages and have a list of twelve so far, all in England. If anyone has one they especially like, I'd be glad to hear about it, please. Maybe in other parts of the UK? But further English examples also welcome. Thank you.

Wine-tastings and white-sand beaches on Australia’s ‘most luxurious walk’ Hardcore hikers look away now: this four-day journey along the Cape to Cape Track is walking at its most indulgent

Wine-tastings and white-sand beaches on Australia’s ‘most luxurious walk’—The idea was to spend four days and three nights in the Margaret River region, three hours south from Perth. www.ft.com/content/9f57... @megaheid.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Many thanks to Waterstones for including Upon A White Horse in their best travel books of 2025 list. Lovely to see @megaheid.bsky.social and @stonelands.bsky.social in there, too. www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

The Geographical magazine review of Upon A White Horse

In the new issue of @geographical.co.uk, I review @peteralanross.bsky.social’s fascinating new book, Upon A White Horse

A poetic and meditative exploration of the UK and Ireland’s ancient monuments and sites, it’s the magazine’s book of the month.

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I found this in the library today. @megaheid.bsky.social has me hooked from the first chapter. Weekend plans: ignore #stormamy and stay snug at home.
#glasgowlibraries
#penguins
#readalocalauthor

The tragedy of Best Kebab TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social

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Great to pick up a copy of @megaheid.bsky.social’s An Inconvenience Of Penguins at the book’s Glasgow launch. I think we can all agree that is an all-time great author photo.

I wish I’d got photos of @megaheid.bsky.social doing his launch book reading from behind the bar at The Doublet but I was two pints down by then so here’s some merch. His book An Inconvenience of Penguins is a wild trip, fascinating and funny, and I would totally recommend it.

“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social

A copy of Jamie Lafferty’s new book An Inconvenience of Penguins.

Happy publication day to @megaheid.bsky.social for the brilliantly titled An Inconvenience of Penguins 🎉

A killer opening chapter - looking forward to reading the rest 🐧

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Thanks my friend

Happy publication day to @megaheid.bsky.social, whose book An Inconvenience of Penguins is newly hatched. Great title, great concept – travelling the world to see all eighteen species of penguin – and a great story. I hope the book, unlike its daft wee earthbound subjects, takes flight.

Stone Club at The Social, 20th October 2025 — Stone Club stone club at the social on october 20th. Peter Ross, Anjana Khatwa, Ian Simmons, Stones of Kernow, Mark.S Williamson

I'll be speaking about Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain & Ireland @stoneclub.bsky.social in London on Oct 20. I'm really looking forward to this, especially as Stone Club founders Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw appear in the book. Please come if you can. stoneclub.rocks/events/stone...

Four weeks until my book is out and it feels like it’s been a four year gestation period

Thank you! And thanks for taking the time with it — means a lot

Astonishingly these kind comments from this selection of wise and insightful people cost me £0.00 in bribes

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

Hah! That’s excellent

Thank you!

This, by @megaheid.bsky.social, is a fabulous book, as interesting & idiosyncratic as the birds at its heart. If you are a fan of humour, adventure, dazzling descriptions of epic landscapes, a dash of violence, plus a moving exploration of what’s at stake for penguins/the planet, then it’s for you.

St Kilda sunset

An Inconvenience of Penguins Available to pre-order!

Seems my book is now on sale in New Zealand. As with so many things, I'm unsure about Australia geni.us/Inconvenienc...

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Thank you!

I fully concur that the biggest news of the day is the announcement of Jamie's forthcoming book about his unlikely penguin obsession.

I would recommend purely on the basis of his past writing. But I've had the privilege of previewing a few of the chapters and it is going to be superb.

The only major international news of the day is that after many years of research, I’ve written a book about penguins