The Napoleon of Notting Hill the start of Neil Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere". Both the novel and Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" are referenced in the 2000 video game "Deus Ex". (with illustrations by W. Graham Robertson) The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not
Notting Hill of restaurants, including the two rosette Michelin-rated Ledbury. The hill from which Notting Hill takes its name is still clearly visible, with its summit in the middle of Ladbroke Grove, at the junction with Kensington Park Gardens. Notting Hill has no official boundaries, so definitions of which areas fall under Notting Hill vary. The postcode "W11," centred on the former site of the Post Office in Westbourne Grove, near the junction with Denbigh Road, is the one most closely associated with Notting Hill, although the postcode immediately to the north, "W10," covers North Kensington and 'Part' Kensal Green. Notting Hill