'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel DVD embracing the play of courtly

embracing the play of courtly love

Bolgi the bulldog and of course Cyw the white chick

features a photograph of Dylan Thomas by Nora Summers  (reproduced courtesy of Nora Summers's family / Dylans Bookstore Collections) and wordlists by Dylan Thomas

and also what records can disclose about the circumstances of an individual's last years

now on display at the National Library of Wales

'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel DVD embracing the play of courtlyThis is the first book in Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall trilogy, which has now been made into a major TV series, and has twice won the Man Booker Prize. This brilliant novel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to life. It is the backdrop to the rise of Thomas Cromwell, a lowborn boy, a charmer, a bully, a master of deadly intrigue, and, finally, the most powerful of Henry VIIIs coutiers, who was determined to bring England into a modern age.