If you like Nick Lane's writing, I also recommend David Dreamer's Assembling Life. It gets a good deal more technical (chemical?), and has more depth about poss

If you like Nick Lane's writing, I also recommend David Dreamer's Assembling Life. It gets a good deal more technical (chemical?), and has more depth about possible ways that membranes were "invented". Paul Falkowski's Life's Engines is also quite good.