Children of Radium
Children of Radium
A Buried Inheritance
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 12/03/2026
- Barcode: 9780241517475
- Genre: Society & Culture
- Sub-Genre: Social & Ethical Issues
- Imprint: Penguin
- Publisher: Penguin Random House

Children of Radium
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A Buried Inheritance 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
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