Portobello Road the road in the song "Portobello Belle" on their second album "Communiqué". The cult British children's book character Paddington Bear, featured in the books written by Michael Bond, enjoys visiting Portobello Market on a daily basis. His friend Mr. Gruber owns an antique shop on the Portobello Road, with whom Paddington has his elevenses every day. The Portobello Road and its colorful restaurants, pubs, and local culture is featured prominently in Martin Amis's 1989 dark satirical novel "London Fields." The street and its name also appeared regularly on the hit TV series "Minder". The board game "Portobello Market" is named
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