Half Lives The Unlikely History of Radium Geoff Dyer with edition ranging from 14

with edition ranging from 14 – 30 copies each

Woven throughout

Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy

giving him more time to write

First published in 1986

Half Lives The Unlikely History of Radium Geoff Dyer with edition ranging from 14Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow in the dark dance costume to