Paddington Bear to 32 Windsor Gardens near Notting Hill. While there is a real Windsor Gardens off Harrow Road between Notting Hill and Maida Vale (close to the location as described in the books) the Windsor Gardens in the book is fictitious and does not resemble the real road. Paddington frequents the nearby Portobello Road market, where he is respected by the shopkeepers for driving a hard bargain. When he gets annoyed with someone, he often gives them one of his special "hard stares" (taught to him by Aunt Lucy), which causes them to become flushed and embarrassed. Paddington's adventures usually arise
In an Antique Land Land" is considered to be a stylistically curious book. Written after the success of Ghosh's first two books, "The Circle of Reason" and "The Shadow Lines", and written more than a decade after the dissertation on which the book is based, In an Antique Land defies easy description and has been called "generically indefinable" and could be labelled as "narrative, travel book, autobiographical piece, historical account". In an Antique Land In An Antique Land is an ethnography written in narrative form by the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. The book contains two narratives. The first, an anthropological narrative, revolves around two