Michael Marshall Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Michael Marshall is a science writer. Freelance science writer covering biology, health and environment. He/him. Get my first book "The Genesis Quest" at https://t.co/trVoUKwZe9
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Michael MarshallMichael MarshallThank you Google Alerts for highlighting a new review of The Genesis Quest that I would never have spotted otherwise It's by Leon Retief in @MooseJawToday He says it's "one of the best popular books on this subject that I have read for some time" https://t.co/a9w3e7Eyc7 https://t.co/QeaamNoM5r
Paperback, 2021
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Nick LaneMichael MarshallMy review of Nick Lane’s new book Transformer, about the roles of the Krebs cycle in the history and evolution of life ⬇️ https://t.co/dXlUYO6xUB
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberMichael MarshallThe Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and @davidwengrow One of the most mind-expanding books written on anthropology in the last decade It blows apart our simple conceptions of what "primitive" societies can look like, giving us space to reimagine our own societies
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. KuangMichael Marshall⬇️ Jacob’s list of his top ten books he read this year culminates with R. F. Kuang’s Babel - and by coincidence I pulled that very book off my shelf this morning to start it 🥳 https://t.co/YtlHQ9NTXQ
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le GuinMichael MarshallThe Other Wind, by the sadly missed Ursula Le Guin I refused to read this for years, because I thought the ending of the original Earthsea trilogy was so perfect that I couldn’t get on board with a continuation But the fourth book, Tehanu, grew on me, so I tried TOW 7/15 https://t.co/bCdYBVro3l
Paperback, Mass Market, 2001
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Word for World Is Forest
Ursula K. Le GuinMichael Marshall@gemmamilne See also The Word for World is Forest, which I dare say was a socking critique of US imperialism at the time, but is unfortunately also basically Avatar I still think Ursula Le Guin was one of the greats though - it’s hardly a criticism that she was basically proved right 🥳
Paperback, 2010
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wolf Hall
Hilary MantelMichael MarshallBring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel I read Mantel's entire Cromwell trilogy over the summer and the second was my favourite While Wolf Hall and The Mirror and the Light were both thoroughly absorbing, this one was gripping because it had the most plot momentum
Paperback, 2021
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On a Sunbeam
Tillie WaldenMichael MarshallWent into @bookshopbridprt, one of my favourite bookshops, and came out with two books I’ve been wanting - @kuangrf’s Babel and David Graeber and @davidwengrow’s The Dawn of Everything - plus Tillie Walden’s On a Sunbeam, which I hadn’t heard of but looked great https://t.co/dbFvp4MnHg
Paperback, 2018
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Steve BrusatteMichael MarshallI liked @SteveBrusatte’s new book The Rise and Reign of the Mammals very much: detailed and nuanced while also easy to read and page-turning ⬇️ https://twitter.com/stevebrusatte/status/1536283192398860288
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Actual Star
Monica ByrneMichael MarshallIf you haven’t read The Actual Star you really should, because it’s one of the best books I’ve read in the last few years
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book