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 Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district in West London, located north of Kensington within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road Market. In the early 21st century, Notting Hill has a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses and high-end shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross). A "Daily Telegraph" article in 2004 used the phrase "the Notting Hill Set" to refer to a group of emerging Conservative politicians, such