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1983
 
     
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit        
1984
 
     
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot        
1985
 
     
British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair        
1987
 
     
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall        
1987
 
    
Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV       
1988
 
     
Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses        
1988
 
    
British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes       
1990
 
    
Racing Demon launches a trilogy on the British establishment by English playwright David Hare       
1991
 
    
Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III is performed at the National Theatre in London       
1991
 
    
Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient