Notting Hill the event contributes around £93 million to the London and UK economy. Notting Hill provides the setting for novels by G.K. Chesterton ("The Napoleon of Notting Hill"), Colin MacInnes ("Absolute Beginners"), Michael Moorcock (the Jerry Cornelius quartet), R. C. Sherriff ("The Hopkins Manuscript"), and Alan Hollinghurst ("The Line of Beauty"). Dan Waddel's "The Blood Detective" is a murder novel set in the past and present - featuring Notting Dale. The area's newer, wealthy residents are satirised in Rachel Johnson's novel "Notting Hell" (2006) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden. The area is also the setting of the
Notting Hill Carnival the global Carnival season preceding Lent. This event is a huge street festival which attracts around one million people every year to Notting Hill and looks to highlight Caribbean and black diasporic cultures. Carnival uses influences from many other festivals around the world. Authors Julian Henriques and Beatrice Ferrara claim the festival pulls from other carnivals including Barbados ‘Cropover’, Grenada Carnival, Guyana ‘Mash’, Canadian ‘Caribana’ in Toronto, the US ‘Labour Day Festival’ in Brooklyn, ‘Vincy Mas’ in St. Vincent. They also explain that Notting Hill Carnival is dually influenced by its diasporic cultures and its own country’s influences. Both the