An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic voyages in pursuit of the world's most beloved bird

'Jamie Lafferty has written a kind of Antarctic Roughing It - a wise, rude, hilarious and oddly moving account of the author's unusual quest to see all eighteen species of penguin. Like several of the birds he writes about, real travel writers are critically endangered. An Inconvenience of Penguins proves they are not extinct.'
Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain
'Fascinating and funny, this book - unlike its charismatic subject - wonderfully takes flight.'
Peter Ross, author of Steeple Chasing
'Jamie Lafferty is undoubtedly one of the best travel writers in the English language today: this brilliant debut is both a mad quest and fantastically original memoir. It reveals, in glorious technicolour, so much about these little black and white birds.'
Oliver Smith, author of On This Holy Island
'Travel writer turned global birder Jamie Lafferty embarks on an epic quest - in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result.'
Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World

Jamie Lafferty is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, Financial Times and National Geographic Traveller, while his work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, and BBC Travel. He has been nominated for over twenty awards in the travel writing industry, winning Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards in 2020 and Specialist Travel Writer of the Year at the TravMedia Awards in April 2023. When he's not traveling, he lives in Glasgow.