NeverthelessPersist 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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Purveyor of sword-monks & dragons, Crime (SK Sharp), axes (Nathan Hawke), muskets (SJ Deas), AI (Sam Peters). Boom. IG: stephendeaswriter

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Emma Southon
@sennydreadful Fantasy: The Moonsteel Crown by ME, because the narrator is excellent. Crime (/fantasy) The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stu Turton History: The Silk Roads, Agrippina (Emma Southon). Horror: The Apparition Phase, A Lush and Seething Hell by
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ship of Magic
Robin Hobb
@runalongwomble For some reason, I’m alternating between Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb and The Satanic Verses. Which makes for some interesting transitions.
Paperback, 2023
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Apparition Phase: Shortlisted for the 2021 McKitterick Prize
Will MacLean
@runalongwomble Just finished The Apparition Phase by Will MacLean (a thoroughly solid old school ghost story with a twist) and now onto Cyber-Mage by Saad Z Hossain (and yes, YOUR fault!) :-)
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
Sam Knight
@runalongwomble The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight. Not the genre fiction you might imagine, but a slice of British history from the sixties (yes, it really existed).
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cyber Mage
Saad Z. Hossain
@runalongwomble Just finished The Apparition Phase by Will MacLean (a thoroughly solid old school ghost story with a twist) and now onto Cyber-Mage by Saad Z Hossain (and yes, YOUR fault!) :-)
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
@runalongwomble I’m currently reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith, which I blame on @aptshadow for making octopuses so interesting in Children of Ruin.
Paperback, 2017
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book