"A message had come through my agent's wife, Hilary, that Mick Jagger and David Bowie wanted to meet with me to discuss an upcoming movie project - a crime thriller, apparently. "A date was duly ...

The Prime Suspect creator spoke to the ECHO in an exclusive interview at the Liverpool Playhouse as she released her memoir, ...

Lynda La Plante has managed to pack a thousand lifetimes into one. The celebrated writer has shared the stage with Anthony Hopkins, come face-to-face with some of Britain's most notorious ...

Mick Jagger and David Bowie came up with some ideas for a film but you can't always get what you want and it never made it to the big screen ...

She has created some of the most nail-biting courtroom scenes in television drama. Now Lynda La Plante is facing a legal drama of her own after an actress in her hit crime serial claimed she was ...

Throughout the many twists and turns of her life Lynda La Plante has followed a simple mantra – “you get knocked down, you get back up”. Now in her fascinating and funny memoir Getting Away ...

In my life I’ve brushed off people being f*****g rude too often,’ says Lynda La Plante. ‘Sometimes one has to hit back.’ So petite she’s almost lost in the folds of a battleship-size ...

Over the years McEwan has worked with names including Dick Francis, Lynda La Plante, Sue Grafton, Max Hastings, Kenneth Clarke, Dame Floella Benjamin, Eddie Jaku and Jack Straw, and more recently ...