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• Skylight

  Hare, David, 1947-

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  The script of SKYLIGHT, for your reading pleasure.

• Margaret Thatcher

  a Life and Legacy

  Cannadine, David, 1950-

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  Margaret Thatcher's shadow looms large over the events and lives of SKYLIGHT. Historian Cannadine sets Thatcher in the context of recent British history with elegance, wit and historical insight.

• Serious Money

  a City Comedy

  Churchill, Caryl

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  Churchill's satiric 1987 play is a tale of runaway, winner-take-all corporate greed told in rhyming couplets.

• Eco House Book

  Conran, Terence

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  The character of Tom Sergeant seems loosely based on British designer and restaurateur Terence Conran. Here is an overview of Conran's views on environmentally friendly housing.

• The Colour of Memory

  a Novel

  Dyer, Geoff

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  This vivid fictional memoir recounts the lives of six bohemian friends scratching out an existence in 1980s South London.

• The End of the Affair

  Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

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  The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles during the London Blitz ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. A chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, and slowly his love for her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Iron Lady

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  A surprising and intimate portrait of the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.

• Back Pocket Pasta

  Inspired Dinners to Cook on the Fly

  Henry, Colu

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  After you've seen SKYLIGHT don't be surprised if you find yourself craving spaghetti; it is cooked live on stage. Here are some quick recipes for a great late night pasta repast.

• The Line of Beauty

  a Novel

  Hollinghurst, Alan

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  Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in their rising fortunes and finds his own life forever altered by his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thatcher's Trial

  180 Days That Created a Conservative Icon

  Kwarteng, Kwasi

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  This brief but illuminating account of the beleagured Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's six-month effort to reshape conservatism, forging a generation of fiercely loyal supporters and detractors.

• Plenty

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  Based on another award-winning play by David Hare, this film traces the story of a French resistance fighter and her struggles to fit back into British Society after the war.

• The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction

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  Thirty-four varied stories transport readers back to a seminal period in American history, fraught with anxiety yet morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity.

• Still in a Dream

  1988-1995 : a Story of Shoegaze

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  A five disc comprehensive survey of the ethereal genre of Shoegaze indie pop music, which precisely captures the cultural moment of Hare's Skylight.

• The Adrian Mole Diaries

  Townsend, Sue

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  Townsend hilariously captures the zeitgeist of the UK in the early '80s via Adrian Mole, a 13-year-old budding intellectual who sends his (very bad) poems into the BBC, including one entitled "Mrs Thatcher."

• The Lightning Tree

  Woof, Emily, 1967-

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  Falling in love as teens in 1980s Britain, Ursula and Jerry pursue separate educations, careers and relationships that help them mature and define their love for each other in this vivid period piece.

• The Bonfire of the Vanities

  Wolfe, Tom

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  WASPish investment banker Sherman McCoy takes a wrong turn and discovers how the other half lives, and how quickly reputations can die in this classic American satire of the morally bankrupt moneyed classes.