Notting Hill (film) a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack. William "Will" Thacker owns an independent book store in Notting Hill. He shares his house with an eccentric, carefree Welshman named Spike and has a small, tight knit group of friends that includes Bella, Max, Bernie, and Tony, and his sister Honey. Will encounters Hollywood actress Anna Scott when she enters his shop. Later, he bumps into her on the street and spills his drink on her. She returns to his nearby house to change her clothes and impulsively kisses him. Will calls Anna and she invites him to
Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) a selection of George Whitman's letters and journals written along his “hobo adventures” during the Great Depression. The kindness he received from strangers along the way inspired the founding ethos of the bookstore: "Give what you can; take what you need." The bookstore was a sanctuary for some twenty of its customers during the November 2015 Paris attacks. Notes Bibliography Further reading Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank. The first was opened by Sylvia Beach, an American, on 19 November 1919, at 8 rue