Patrick Mangan: 5 books

‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson   In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English...

Als Patrick Mangans Frau, im siebten Monat schwanger, aufgrund eines uneindeutigen Befundes ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden muss, beginnt zunächst eine viertägige Zeit qualvollen Wartens, die am fünften Tag abrupt beendet wird. In einer lebensgefährlichen Notoperation müssen seine Frau gerettet,...

A tribute to the bravest, craziest, unluckiest, most ridiculous defeats in Australian sporting history. Typically, there?s only one way to win ? by being the best. But there are countless ways of having victory snatched from your grasp. Remember Pat Rafter?s 2001 Wimbledon final against the...

14 days.That’s how long Tyler Swann and his family will visit the Riverlands Land and Cattle Ranch, a guest ranch in western Montana. Too bad Tyler is a jerk and a hot-head, pushing Logan, the ranch owner, down to the ground on day one. It’ll be a long stay for the family with their belligerent...

Connor’s week-long camping vacation in eastern Oregon takes a turn in the wrong direction when his car breaks down at a scenic location in the middle of nowhere. Things quickly get back on track when Jared, a local mechanic, passes by, offering to give him a ride into the small nearby town and fix...