# Event Details - **Event Name**: HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: About this EventJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home.The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life – an unpublished, two-thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew.Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world, from Berlin to Ankara, New York, Glasgow and eventually London – a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste. On the trail of one ‘jolly grandpa’ with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledge of poison gases, Joe Dunthorne is forced to confront the uncomfortable questions that lie at the heart of every family. Can we ever understand where we come from? Is every family in the end a work of fiction? And even if the truth can be found – will we be able to live with it?Children of Radium is a remarkable, searching meditation on individual and collective inheritance. Witty and wry, deeply humane and endlessly surprising, it considers the long half-life of trauma, the weight of guilt and the ever-evasive nature of the truth.About the SpeakersJoe Dunthorne is a poet and novelist. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into fifteen languages and made into an award-winning film. His second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. His debut poetry collection, O Positive, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. His latest book, Children of Radium – a memoir about family and chemical weapons – was published in April 2025 and adapted into an award-winning podcast for BBC Radio 4. He was born in Swansea and lives in London.Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary fiction, philosophy and on Holocaust literature. He is the author of eight books, and he has advised the UK government on matters to do with Holocaust memory. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/hgrp-book-talk-children-of-radium-joe-dunthorne-with-robert-eaglestone/100001983448935158 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment, health-wellness, trips-adventures - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Wiener Holocaust Library - **lat**: 51.5215842 - **long**: -0.1280363 - **full address**: The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/14593e8d7694744014800e1bda0b9c7ec1fdb226dc8535aa07a71e591207fa9f-rimg-w1200-h675-dcf7f5e0-gmir.jpg?v=1774888362 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone being held? - **A:** HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone takes place on Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone? - **A:** HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone is organized by The Wiener Library. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "HGRP Book Talk: Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne with Robert Eaglestone", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/14593e8d7694744014800e1bda0b9c7ec1fdb226dc8535aa07a71e591207fa9f-rimg-w1200-h675-dcf7f5e0-gmir.jpg?v=1774888362", "startDate": "2026-05-06T18:30:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-05-06T20:00:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hgrp-book-talk-children-of-radium-joe-dunthorne-with-robert-eaglestone/100001983448935158", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "The Wiener Holocaust Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "29 Russell Square", "postalCode": "WC1B 5DP", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5215842", "longitude": "-0.1280363" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-06T20:00:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hgrp-book-talk-children-of-radium-joe-dunthorne-with-robert-eaglestone/100001983448935158" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hgrp-book-talk-children-of-radium-joe-dunthorne-with-robert-eaglestone/100001983448935158", "price": 0, "name": "In Person Tickets" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hgrp-book-talk-children-of-radium-joe-dunthorne-with-robert-eaglestone/100001983448935158", "price": 0, "name": "Donation" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Wiener Library", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-wiener-library/22261038" } ] } ] ```