Save the Travel Bookshop

The economic downturn had hit one of Britain’s most famous book stores.

After more than three decades in business the Travel Bookshop is due to close in two weeks unless a last-minute buyer can be found.

The well-known bookshop in west London was the inspiration for the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill in which its owner, played by Hugh Grant, met and fell in love with a famous film actress played by Julia Roberts.

The 1999 movie turned the store into one of London’s most popular tourist attraction, regardless of the fact that the scenes were not filmed in the store, but in a nearby antique shop with recreated interiors.

The Travel Bookshop is having a bad time, but a group of supporters are rallying to save it from closure. In fact, this group of writers and poets is offering to volunteer a day a week to help run it if a new buyer can be found.

Meanwhile, other independent bookshops all over the country are threatened with closure because of the recession.