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    The Notting Hill Bookshop (London, UK)

    Unforgettable for its central role in the British comedy NOTTING HILL (1999) by Roger Michell, The Notting Hill Bookshop still sells books.

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    The Notting Hill Bookshop

    In the film, William Thacker (Hugh Grant) lives in Notting Hill in West London. Divorced, he thinks of himself as living a ‘strange half-life’ – he shares his house with a bizarre, unshaven Welshman named Spike (Rhys Ifans), and owns a distinctly unsuccessful travel bookshop on Portobello Road.

    Arriving at the bookshop one day, William settles down to ‘just another hopeless Wednesday’. And then the door opens quietly. William looks up and is stunned to recognise his new customer as Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), the world’s most famous movie star. She buys a book, they exchange a word or two – and she leaves. That’s it.

    Well, not quite …

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