Rita de Brun was a widow before 40, so she is sceptical of research that says we are happiest at any particular time. It’s different for everyone. Some people thrive later, into their 60s and 70s. We asked three celebrities in their prime if they were less or more content now.

FROM a 15th century book of hours to photographs of the Co Clare RIC, the Fonsie Mealy rare book and collectors’ sale, in Dublin next Tuesday, goes on view today.

Stephen King loves scaring people, but a curious university student couldn’t resist trying to find out what scares the horror master.

DUBLIN 4’s best-loved Celtic Tiger cub Ross O’Carroll Kelly’s latest adventure has been crowned the country’s all-time favourite book.

Robin Wright thinks it is a "gift" to work on a movie franchise.

JOSEPH HELLER’S epic war novel, Catch 22, has one seemingly crazy scenario in which the Germans offer to pay the Americans to bomb a US airbase.

AUTHOR Leon Uris, an immigrant’s determined son who made it big with the best-selling Exodus and other hugely popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said yesterday. He was 78.