Jay Foreman
@jayforeman.bsky.social
‘This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong’ (the MAP MEN BOOK) is available now: https://lnk.to/mapmen 🗺️ 📕
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THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR
Go to THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR.
mapmen.lnk.to
We’ve added two more dates to our book tour!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
Do you live in….
A. Nottingham
B. Liverpool
C. Neither of those places but you fancy a trip to either Nottingham or Liverpool?
Then come on down and say hi to me and/or @markcooperjones.bsky.social in Nottingham/Liverpool.
#mapmenbookbooktour
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
A. Nottingham
B. Liverpool
C. Neither of those places but you fancy a trip to either Nottingham or Liverpool?
Then come on down and say hi to me and/or @markcooperjones.bsky.social in Nottingham/Liverpool.
#mapmenbookbooktour
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR
Go to THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR.
mapmen.lnk.to
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Do you live in….
A. Nottingham
B. Liverpool
C. Neither of those places but you fancy a trip to either Nottingham or Liverpool?
Then come on down and say hi to me and/or @markcooperjones.bsky.social in Nottingham/Liverpool.
#mapmenbookbooktour
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
A. Nottingham
B. Liverpool
C. Neither of those places but you fancy a trip to either Nottingham or Liverpool?
Then come on down and say hi to me and/or @markcooperjones.bsky.social in Nottingham/Liverpool.
#mapmenbookbooktour
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
If you ever find yourself writing a book, I highly recommend including the sentence “Britain has an unparalleled variety of crisp flavours” so that, at a signing event, a French person can meet you and say “oh no you don’t.” and give you a big bag of pesto and mozzarella flavour crisps.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you ever find yourself writing a book, I highly recommend including the sentence “Britain has an unparalleled variety of crisp flavours” so that, at a signing event, a French person can meet you and say “oh no you don’t.” and give you a big bag of pesto and mozzarella flavour crisps.
It’s truly remarkable how unlistenably bad the 2025 AI remix of Real Love is, especially given how tasteful a job they did with Free as a Bird just a few minutes ago. Unanimously despised in the comments section. Sounds like an intern emailed the wrong file to the publishers.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s truly remarkable how unlistenably bad the 2025 AI remix of Real Love is, especially given how tasteful a job they did with Free as a Bird just a few minutes ago. Unanimously despised in the comments section. Sounds like an intern emailed the wrong file to the publishers.
Those who find Beatle geekery tedious, look away now…
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Those who find Beatle geekery tedious, look away now…
Prediction for Frozen 3…
Multiple Olafs.
Multiple Olafs.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Prediction for Frozen 3…
Multiple Olafs.
Multiple Olafs.
Surprising that ‘horse’ doesn’t have a weird plural.
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Surprising that ‘horse’ doesn’t have a weird plural.
Have you always wanted to ask either me or @markcooperjones.bsky.social a stupid question, that we HAVE to answer?
Then come see us on the MAP MEN BOOK BOOK TOUR! 🗺️📕🚌
(Just two dates left!)
Liverpool Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Then come see us on the MAP MEN BOOK BOOK TOUR! 🗺️📕🚌
(Just two dates left!)
Liverpool Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR
Go to THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR.
mapmen.lnk.to
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Have you always wanted to ask either me or @markcooperjones.bsky.social a stupid question, that we HAVE to answer?
Then come see us on the MAP MEN BOOK BOOK TOUR! 🗺️📕🚌
(Just two dates left!)
Liverpool Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Then come see us on the MAP MEN BOOK BOOK TOUR! 🗺️📕🚌
(Just two dates left!)
Liverpool Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
I think it should be called a teethbrush.
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I think it should be called a teethbrush.
Want to meet @markcooperjones.bsky.social and me, but can't decide which book signing Q&A event to come to? Here's a helpful map to choose your most suitable Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social.
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Want to meet @markcooperjones.bsky.social and me, but can't decide which book signing Q&A event to come to? Here's a helpful map to choose your most suitable Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social.
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
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🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
We’ve added two more dates to our book tour!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR
Go to THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR.
mapmen.lnk.to
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We’ve added two more dates to our book tour!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
Liverpool - Tuesday 2nd Dec
Nottingham - Wednesday 3rd Dec
mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR
Come along to ask me and @markcooperjones.bsky.social any question you like, and we HAVE to answer!
I’ve been staring, somewhat open mouthed at this map all week. One of these motorways was indeed meant to roar right past my house! An absolutely fascinating map that simultaneously makes way more sense than the London we ended up with, and shows an absolutely unthinkable parallel universe.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I’ve been staring, somewhat open mouthed at this map all week. One of these motorways was indeed meant to roar right past my house! An absolutely fascinating map that simultaneously makes way more sense than the London we ended up with, and shows an absolutely unthinkable parallel universe.
Well, this is lovely! Two weeks later and the Map Men book (‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’) is **STILL** in the charts! 😄 Thank you so so much to everyone who’s bought a copy!
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Well, this is lovely! Two weeks later and the Map Men book (‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’) is **STILL** in the charts! 😄 Thank you so so much to everyone who’s bought a copy!
We considered several options…
1. Chapter each
2. Word each
3. Swap every 90 seconds
4. Creepy perfect unison
5. Mark does verbs
6. Mark does consonants
Download the audiobook to find out what we did.
1. Chapter each
2. Word each
3. Swap every 90 seconds
4. Creepy perfect unison
5. Mark does verbs
6. Mark does consonants
Download the audiobook to find out what we did.
How did you decide who narrated which part? Or did you both narrate the whole book and I get to pick which voice I listen to?
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We considered several options…
1. Chapter each
2. Word each
3. Swap every 90 seconds
4. Creepy perfect unison
5. Mark does verbs
6. Mark does consonants
Download the audiobook to find out what we did.
1. Chapter each
2. Word each
3. Swap every 90 seconds
4. Creepy perfect unison
5. Mark does verbs
6. Mark does consonants
Download the audiobook to find out what we did.
YES! The Map Men Book (This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong) *IS* available as an audiobook.
YES! Mark and I narrate it ourselves.
YES! It *IS* included in Audible's "editor's selects" this week!
www.audible.com/blog/editors...
YES! Mark and I narrate it ourselves.
YES! It *IS* included in Audible's "editor's selects" this week!
www.audible.com/blog/editors...
Editors Select: November 2025
13 new releases you can't miss—from fantasies to memoirs to thrillers. Check out our most-anticipated listens of the month.
www.audible.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
YES! The Map Men Book (This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong) *IS* available as an audiobook.
YES! Mark and I narrate it ourselves.
YES! It *IS* included in Audible's "editor's selects" this week!
www.audible.com/blog/editors...
YES! Mark and I narrate it ourselves.
YES! It *IS* included in Audible's "editor's selects" this week!
www.audible.com/blog/editors...
Reposted by Jay Foreman
Fans of maps, mugs, map mugs, our mugs on a map mug, and other bits (map bookmarks/stickers).
If you buy - or have bought - a copy of our book, This Way Up, you have a chance to WIN such glorious paraphernalia by providing proof of purchase here by 5th December...
gleam.io/upMuX/harper...
If you buy - or have bought - a copy of our book, This Way Up, you have a chance to WIN such glorious paraphernalia by providing proof of purchase here by 5th December...
gleam.io/upMuX/harper...
HarperNonFiction_Win an exclusive Map Men merch pack!
Win one of twenty exclusive This Way Up merch packs! 🌍 Celebrate with us the launch of the Map Men's debut book, This Way Up. Grab a copy of the book for your chance to win an exclusive limited editio...
gleam.io
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fans of maps, mugs, map mugs, our mugs on a map mug, and other bits (map bookmarks/stickers).
If you buy - or have bought - a copy of our book, This Way Up, you have a chance to WIN such glorious paraphernalia by providing proof of purchase here by 5th December...
gleam.io/upMuX/harper...
If you buy - or have bought - a copy of our book, This Way Up, you have a chance to WIN such glorious paraphernalia by providing proof of purchase here by 5th December...
gleam.io/upMuX/harper...
Just thought I'd ruin the song 'Mary' by Scissor Sisters for you...
When he sings "waiting for the time to **P**ass", he pops the microphone.
There. Can't unhear it now.
When he sings "waiting for the time to **P**ass", he pops the microphone.
There. Can't unhear it now.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just thought I'd ruin the song 'Mary' by Scissor Sisters for you...
When he sings "waiting for the time to **P**ass", he pops the microphone.
There. Can't unhear it now.
When he sings "waiting for the time to **P**ass", he pops the microphone.
There. Can't unhear it now.
Good morning, North America!
Exciting news…. the Map Men book ‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’ is available from TODAY from USAan and Canadian book shops!
lnk.to/mapmen
Exciting news…. the Map Men book ‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’ is available from TODAY from USAan and Canadian book shops!
lnk.to/mapmen
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good morning, North America!
Exciting news…. the Map Men book ‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’ is available from TODAY from USAan and Canadian book shops!
lnk.to/mapmen
Exciting news…. the Map Men book ‘This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’ is available from TODAY from USAan and Canadian book shops!
lnk.to/mapmen
YAAAAYY!!!! My brother Beardyman has today released the FULL VERSION of the ‘I’m Bending My Legs the Wrong Way’ song that he let us use 20 seconds of at the end of the last Map Men video.
(I think this is the greatest thing he has ever done)
youtu.be/wzJeNQcaUPM
(I think this is the greatest thing he has ever done)
youtu.be/wzJeNQcaUPM
I’m bending my legs the wrong way
YouTube video by Beardyman
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
YAAAAYY!!!! My brother Beardyman has today released the FULL VERSION of the ‘I’m Bending My Legs the Wrong Way’ song that he let us use 20 seconds of at the end of the last Map Men video.
(I think this is the greatest thing he has ever done)
youtu.be/wzJeNQcaUPM
(I think this is the greatest thing he has ever done)
youtu.be/wzJeNQcaUPM
Reposted by Jay Foreman
Sunday Times Bestseller! Well this is just lovely news. Thank you to everyone who has bought This Way Up. You're all the best.
Here's us holding the book in front of some globes for no reason.
@jayforeman.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
Here's us holding the book in front of some globes for no reason.
@jayforeman.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Sunday Times Bestseller! Well this is just lovely news. Thank you to everyone who has bought This Way Up. You're all the best.
Here's us holding the book in front of some globes for no reason.
@jayforeman.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
Here's us holding the book in front of some globes for no reason.
@jayforeman.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
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Just when I thought the Map Men book couldn’t be any more up my street, I turn the page & there’s a chapter on the ITV regional franchises. 🤩
@jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
@jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just when I thought the Map Men book couldn’t be any more up my street, I turn the page & there’s a chapter on the ITV regional franchises. 🤩
@jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
@jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
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Absolutely *delighted* to see the Map Men's book This Way Up has gone straight into the charts. It's brilliant and the bigger the "funny cartography and geopolitics" segment of the market gets the better, to my mind
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Hooray! Both our books are in today’s Times.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Absolutely *delighted* to see the Map Men's book This Way Up has gone straight into the charts. It's brilliant and the bigger the "funny cartography and geopolitics" segment of the market gets the better, to my mind
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Hooray! Both our books are in today’s Times.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Hooray! Both our books are in today’s Times.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
1. Sorry the photo’s cropped. My dad whatsapped it to me.
2. The typo might be good news if it means Times readers get ten more borders than they were expecting.
Don’t forget to tune into Channel 5 immediately to watch @markcooperjones.bsky.social and me on the Jeremy Vine show to talk about the Map Men Book!
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Don’t forget to tune into Channel 5 immediately to watch @markcooperjones.bsky.social and me on the Jeremy Vine show to talk about the Map Men Book!