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The Gaffer

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Thomas 'Tam the Bam' Bamford is the most reviled football fan on the Isle of Guff, known for his disgusting manner and terrible attitude. However, when his mother dies and he comes into a small fortune, he buys a fifty-one percent share in the Guff Rovers and becomes their gaffer. Despite his lack of experience and incompetence, he has to shape up and improve the team, or they’ll be out of the league. But with a team that hates him and Tam’s terrible attitude, there’s a long road ahead. A humorous and heart-warming read.
P.J. Laverty is a Scottish-Australian writer specialising in historical football fiction (with a comedic spin). ​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). He is currently completing a creative writing Ph.D. at Curtin University. ​He is a football tragic who will never tire of telling anyone within earshot all about his adventures in Germany during World Cup 2006. ​He lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, with his wife and two children.
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