LINDA LOVELACE BOOKS

Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace authored several books giving conflicting stories of her life and career, depending on her attitudes of the time.

Inside Linda Lovelace was a cause celebré in the UK, being at the centre of a major obscenity trial. It's victory supposedly marked the end of obscenity prosecutions for the written word in Britain (though someone forgot to tell Greater Manchester Police, who twice imprisoned Savoy Books' David Britton for selling and publishing novels in the 1980s and 90s).

This second book came after her break with notorious husband / manager Chuck Traynor but before her conversion to born-again anti-porn crusader.

Ordeal was her disputed account of being forced into making porn by Traynor, though her most outlandish claims - such as being forced at gunpoint to shoot Deep Throat - are actually nowhere to be found in the book, and only emerged later in interviews. No-one - including those who also quit the industry and had no real love for it, like Harry Reems - supported her claims, but she was backed up by anti-porn campaigners.

This was her follow-up to Ordeal - a mix of continuing the story and defending herself again those who doubted her word. Unfortunately for Linda, the public had lost interest by then.