So the Summer of the trashy page turner continues apace with A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. I know nada about history - I didn't even do a GCSE in the subject, preferring the wilds of Dudley, Ludlow, and the Long Mynd (sp?) that came with Geography instead. So it's got to be a process of self-education and, since I'm not going to read text books or indeed any non-fiction apart from newspapers and websites this summer, that leaves me only with fictional accounts of history.