By the time Sir Terry Pratchett died in 2015, at the age of 66, he had completed 53 novels (one of them twice), co-authored another six and written close to 100 short stories. It represents a writing career that had begun in 1963 when he was just 14. But those wonderful words eventually ran dry. Following the posthumous release of his final few novels, there could never again be a new Terry Pratchett book.
Until now.
, published this week, compiles short tales written by Pratchett for newspapers in the ’70s and early ’80s and not republished since. It’s not the first such collection – before he died, Pratchett himself approved several volumes of his early tales, originally published in the newspaper where he wrote children’s stories under are different, though – until last year, nobody knew they existed.
