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Steven Lawther is a sportswriter and former political consultant. He is the author of Unthinkable - Raith Rovers' improbable journey from the bottom of the top of Scottish football published by Pitch Publishing in 2014. [1] The book tells the story of Raith Rovers 1994 League Cup win and was listed on The Scotsman's best Scottish sport reads of 2014. [2] His second book, Arrival - How Scotland's women took their place on the world stage and inspired a generation was published by Pitch Publishing in 2021 and documents the history of the Scotland National Women's Team and their journey to the 2019 World Cup. [3] His third book, We Led in Munich - the unlikely adventures of Raith Rovers in Europe was published by Pitch Publishing in 2025. [4] [5]
Lawther is a former head of communications for the Scottish Labour Party. He came to prominence when he resigned from his post three months before the Scottish Parliament election campaign in 2007. [6] [7] Labour went by on to lose the election to the Scottish National Party. In 2007, Lawther established a research and communications agency called Red Circle Communications. [8] He also conducted opinion polling for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland in relation to the devolution of policing and justice powers in 2010.