1. Daughter of Radium Half-Life Episode 2 of 9 Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather Siegfried’s unpublished memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession. Show more ...

Written and presented by Joe Dunthorne, (based on his book Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance) Produced by Eleanor McDowall Music by Jeremy Warmsley Mixing engineer, Mike Woolley ...

Joe Dunthorne only knew his Jewish great-grandfather to be an eccentric chemist. Hundreds of letters and a 2000-page memoir would reveal ties to Nazi-era chemical weapons. Show more Novelist Joe ...

Children of Radium is more than a memoir. It’s a detective thriller set in Berlin, Ankara and New York, as Dunthorne tries to track down the truth about his great-grandfather after nearly a century of ...

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne, Hamish Hamilton £16.99/Scribner $28.99, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and follow FT Weekend on ...

Children of Radium is a powerful exploration of the struggle to separate truth from the stories we want to believe. Dunthorne interrogates not just the omissions and self-deceptions in his great ...

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past. By Emma Brockes Emma Brockes is the author of “She Left Me the Gun ...

This first work of non-fiction by novelist Dunthorne tells the extraordinary story of four generations of his family. At its heart lies his investigation into the veracity of a memoir written by ...

Book Review Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance By Joe Dunthorne Scribner: 240 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

RBC | With all the talk of nuclear power plants and storing spent fuel rods in Northwest Colorado, I thought it would be good to mention that radioactive ores and mills are nothing new to our area.