The Notting Hill Book Shop was made famous by the Hugh Grant film Notting Hill

Notting Hill Bookshop

Notting Hill & West London


This fine, rather small, general bookshop – the inspiration behind the bookshop in Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts' monster rom-com Notting Hill – still sees a regular stream of pilgrims (of all ages) who pose outside for snaps. An understandable and very browseable accent on travel books endures, but fiction provides equilibrium and there's a strong children’s section at the rear.


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