Oh the joy of being a Catholic teenager in the sixties with a book from the ‘index’ under the desk-lid. With hindsight most of them were deadly boring but still we sniggered our way through them. They were banned so they had to be good, didn’t they?! Lady Chatterley’s Lover being one such tome. If it had been a GCE choice it would have been boring but as it was BANNED….. wow.

Of course, another good way to get a best-seller is to have your office fire-bombed in protest! Very effective.