Books by C. E. McGill
“Our Hideous Progeny is set in the 1850s and the main character is Mary, who is the great niece of Victor Frankenstein…Mary is fiercely intelligent and hugely ambitious and she discovers the partly burned diaries of her great uncle, Frankenstein. She becomes consumed with the idea of taking his research further. Her husband is ambitious too, but not as smart as her, and she discusses the idea with him. They start plotting and experimenting and doing all this research. That’s what the story is about—the art and science of making a monster.” Read more...
Interviews where books by C. E. McGill were recommended
The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize, recommended by Emma Styles
If you love adventure stories, you’ll be delighted to hear that there’s a book prize fully focused on them. Novelist Emma Styles, one of the judges for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, talks us through the shortlist for best published novel, from pirates in the Caribbean to World War II Italy, from Victorian London to a dystopian future Britain—by way of Nigeria and Tbilisi, Georgia.
