In the 70s and 80s, Pratchett published short stories under a pseudonym while working as a local newspaper journalist. Decades later, husband-and-wife superfans Jan and Pat Harkin went on a hunt to find them
is a collection of tales Pratchett authored as a local newspaper journalist in the 1970s and 1980s, largely published under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns. Their existence was a secret to all but Pratchett himself, who died in 2015 after. They were finally unearthed by a wife-and-husband team of amateur Pratchett-ologists, Jan and Pat Harkin, who combed through hundreds of newspaper back issues in an epic feat of literary sleuthing.
“Spectacular” is right. Every so often, they would stumble upon a new “Patrick Kearns” byline and yelp with joy . Those discoveries made all the hard work worthwhile. And it was hard work – a daily grind of leafing through yellowed pages. “He sometimes got quite angry about those things in those books,” adds Jan. “There was passion there about discrimination or exploitation. It was done with a satirical smile: it made you laugh and then it made you think.”forbade his estate from publishing any unfinished books
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