Collection: P.J. Laverty

P.J. Laverty is a Scottish-Australian writer specialising in historical football fiction (with a comedic spin) with a PhD in Creative Writing from Curtin University.

Under the moniker Paul J Laverty, he is the host of 94.9 Main FM literary book show, The Quiet Carriage, which also airs nationally on the Community Radio Network. He has written two novellas, Man Overbored and Cider Country(RoadHouse Media). He also wrote the first biography on Grammy award winners Arcade Fire and another on Beck(Artnik / Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag).

His first football novel, The Gaffer, was published in 2022. 

He is a football tragic who will never tire of telling anyone within earshot all about his adventures in Germany duringWorld Cup 2006. He lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, with his wife and two children.