BANNED: Books you could have been jailed for reading
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Many books have been banned for not conforming to the political, religious or moral codes of their day.
We look at ten controversial books which have been banned here and around the world.
Ok, so you're unlikely to be put in jail these days, but you might have been once so read carefully.
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