Emma Donoghue: The lockdown lessons I learned from writing Room
The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has new resonance during coronavirus
Emma Donoghue: ‘When I have an idea, I hurl myself at it’
The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage
Hitler’s house seized by Austrian parliament
The former dictator’s home has become a macabre Neo-Nazi attraction – a phenomenon known in the trade as “real estate disaster porn”
House where Josef Fritzl held daughter captive is sold
Building west of Vienna to be turned into apartments, says state media
Josef Fritzl house offered as accommodation for refugees
Move indicative of pressure on officials as thousands of migrants arrive in country
Men on death row . . . and the Irish women who write to them
What makes someone start up a correspondence with a prisoner, and what do they hope to get out of it? Four Irish women who regularly write to inmates tell their stories
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad
Screaming woman ‘going nuts to get out of a house’ brings 10-year Ohio kidnap ordeal to an end
Three women and child found alive in house within minutes of emergency call
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