Children of Radium
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- ISBN 9780241517475
- Weight: 252g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A gripping journey into the twisting moral maze of the twentieth century – a journey to uncover a radioactive family secret
'The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times
Joe Dunthorne never met his great-grandfather Siegfried: an eccentric Jewish scientist who escaped Nazi Berlin in the 1930s and snuck back under cover of night to rescue the family heirlooms. Decades later, Siegfried wrote about his adventures in a memoir so long and rambling that almost no one ever managed to read it. Decades after that, his great-grandson Joe unearthed the dusty manuscript and got a nasty surprise. Because hidden on page 1,692 of the unreadable memoir was a shocking confession . . .
‘A voyage into the heart of twentieth-century darkness [...] narrated with the twists and turns of a detective story’ Observer
SHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London.
www.joedunthorne.com
