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In years to come, 2020 will be immortalised as the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. One local author is ahead of the game and has created a unique record of the “extraordinary but tragic year,” by plotting out the year’s key events in more than 230 black-and-white illustrations. There are 50 pages featuring the difficult challenges many have faced and the phenomenal resilience of the UK’s National Health Service. Retired civil engineer John C Mather, who lives in Thursby, pays tribute to everyone who has suffered during the pandemic and also wanted to show his gratitude for all...

Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer, Tod McCoy & M. Huw Evans, eds. (Hy­dra House 978-0997951073, $17.95, 196pp, pb) February 2021. Gathered here are 28 essays (six reprints, 22 originals) by instructors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, intended, as Tod McCoy explains in his foreword, as “a way to give back to a community who may not be able to attend the workshop by delivering thoughts and insights about writing and process from writers who have taught at Clarion.” Those who might benefit most from these insights, McCoy goes on to say, are neither beginning nor advanced w...