Half Lives The Unlikely History of Radium Geoff Dyer Paul Bangay is Australia’s most

Paul Bangay is Australia’s most sought-after garden designer

Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing

' - James Button

Or so Triangle thinks

First published in 1986

Half Lives The Unlikely History of Radium Geoff Dyer Paul Bangay is Australia’s mostLucy 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