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Jamie Lafferty

@megaheid.bsky.social
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Writer, photographer, polar guide, often in faraway places.

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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Saw a junkie being asked to leave the big Waterstones when he was near my table. Think this means I’ve finally made it
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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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.
The front cover of the new issue of Geographical magazineThe review of An Inconvenience of Penguins
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🐧 What a wonderful and fascinating webinar this evening from @antarcticheritage.bsky.social with @megaheid.bsky.social for #PenguinAwarenessDay. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHt...
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Epic Voyages in Pursuit of Penguins
YouTube video by UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The wise kids at Time Out have included my book as one of the 10 best of 2025 www.timeout.com/arts-and-cul...
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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
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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.
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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
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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
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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The Best Nature & Travel Writing of 2025 | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
From Robert Macfarlane to Monisha Rajesh, here is the nature and travel writing we've loved this year.
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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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. 📖 @headlinebooks.bsky.social
The Geographical magazine review of Upon A White Horse
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Pat @swottypat.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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
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Peter Walker @pegerteg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...
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The tragedy of Best Kebab
TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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.
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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.
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“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
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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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 🐧 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...
A copy of Jamie Lafferty’s new book An Inconvenience of Penguins.
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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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
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Four weeks until my book is out and it feels like it’s been a four year gestation period
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Astonishingly these kind comments from this selection of wise and insightful people cost me £0.00 in bribes
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/07/2025
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."
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.
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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.
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
St Kilda sunset
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Seems my book is now on sale in New Zealand. As with so many things, I'm unsure about Australia geni.us/Inconvenienc...
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An Inconvenience of Penguins
Available to pre-order!
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
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Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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.
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The only major international news of the day is that after many years of research, I’ve written a book about penguins
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Saw the Erect Crested penguin, making it 18/18. There are no penguins left to conquer. Just need to work out what to do with the rest of my life now
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
What an incredibly strange story www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This LRB long read is probably the best feature I’ve read this year www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Penguin #17: The Royal, endemic to Macquarie Island though reassuringly insane like all crested penguins.
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Penguin #17: The Royal, endemic to Macquarie Island though reassuringly insane like all crested penguins.
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
It is Antarctica Day. They'll be dancing on the streets of Port Lockroy tonight
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Kind of amazed that quokkas get away with it tbh
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Dom Tulett @domtulett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Looks like a sparrow robbed a security van and got blasted by the dye pack when he opened the bag of cash
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Australia's wrens have taken things too far
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The coast in southern Western Australia is a like Ayrshire but obviously a bit less
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This footage of Billy Connolly is extraordinary for lots of reasons fb.watch/w41bNictsx/
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Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
First article I've had published since the great Bluesky migration, so if everyone could pretend to read and like it that would be great! This one's about a walk in NE Japan - an emblem of recovery in the wake of disaster. With photos by @marcuswestberg.bsky.social. www.ft.com/content/7f5f...
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How a new 1,000km hiking trail is helping Japan move on from the tsunami
Built as part of the recovery effort, the Michinoku Trail is driving the discovery of a long-overlooked region
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Flying back to the Antipodes to finish the Big Project. Appropriately it'll include a visit to the Antipodes Islands, a far flung subantarctic group that Churchill's government once requested to use for nuclear testing. They got a knock back, which saved a penguin species from extinction-by-nuke.
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The North Coast 500 without other traffic was not abysmal
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
It is Antarctica Day, when people celebrate this putrid old eyesore for some reason
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Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Felt compelled to edit some misleading google maps yesterday. Awoke today to find that my changes have been accepted and I am now bathing in the cool afterglow. Thought it would take longer to settle into my 40s tbh
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/11/2023
Penguins are champion power nappers. They fall asleep thousands of times, each bout a few seconds long, over the course of a single day, researchers have found. It may be an adaptation to their noisy and crowded colonies. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/s...
A single chinstrap penguin is resting on its stomach on a rock with its eyes shut. A headline reads: "Penguins Take Thousands of Naps Every Day." Photo by Paul-Antoine Libourel.
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
So excited to announce the impending birth of my first book baby! And it’s about the greatest city in the world. Born of a viral tweet but so much more. Pubbing March ‘24. Pre-order whenever you get books!
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