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 Book Review: Piglet by Lottie Hazel Buy Piglet  here - U.S. | U.K. OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB:   Piglet is judging the contents of your shopping trolley. She is listening to what you order for lunch and is observing whether the dessert you serve is homemade or snatched from a packet. There isn't another 31-year-old that takes food more seriously. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? In just over a fortnight, she is marrying Kit. Kit and his tasteful family present an opportunity for reinvention - when she had been growing up in Derby, this life, this man had been beyond her imagination. Together they are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts in their new house and planning an immaculate, covetable wedding. Everything is coming together for Piglet - tied as tightly and perfectly as her apron strings. But, if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is... FORMAT/INFO:   Piglet  is published on January 25, 2024 by Doubleday ...

 Interview with C. E. McGill, author of Our Hideous Progeny ef Buy  Our Hideous Progeny  here - U.S. | U.K. Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of Our Hideous Progeny here INTERVIEW Thank you for taking the time to talk to us, and welcome to the Fantasy Book Critic! Could you tell us a little bit about yourself, and your newly launched debut book, OUR HIDEOUS PROGENY? Thank you for having me! I’m Charlie, or C. E. McGill (they/them), and Our Hideous Progeny is a spin-off of Frankenstein that began as my final year project in university. It’s a story about Mary (née Frankenstein) Sutherland, a paleontologist struggling to make her name as a scientist in Victorian London, who re-discovers her great uncle Victor’s notes and decides to follow in his footsteps… I’ve always loved sci-fi, so in university I ended up majoring in “Narratives of Science in Fiction and History,” an eclectic combination of creative writing, scientific history, and literary analysis of science fictio...