The Notting Hill Carnival may be over for another year, but those who just can’t let it go can read a new book set around the annual street party.

Trespassers is a fictional crime novel set against the backdrop of the carnival and is penned by Saul Delino, who uses used his memories of growing up around Ladbroke Grove, Holland Park and other parts of Kensington & Chelsea to help inspire his writing.

The 40-year-old was born and lived in Fulham until 2000, and attended Cardinal Vaughan School in Holland Park.

He started writing the book in 1997, and his labour of love is now available to purchase on Amazon.

Saul, who is a trained architect and works at a telecommunications company, said: “All of this book is based in the area I spent growing up. There are lots of influences from the area.”

The book is set in 1999 and centres around its lead character, an agoraphobic architect, whose life takes a turn for the worse when his past catches up with him.

Saul explained: “He got involved with the wrong people when he was younger, and it comes back to haunt him in the run-up to Carnival in 1999, just as things look like they are about to take off for him.

“The book is pretty much all set in west London. Most of the stuff plays out on the streets of west London in the run-up to carnival.”

The dad, who now lives in Herne Hill, drew on his childhood to develop the story: “I grew up in this kind of area. Holland Park School, Holland Park itself, the carnival, the community centres... a lot of these places bring back memories for me, I spent heck of a long time there.

“Setting the book in Ladbroke Grove, in the borough where I was born and went to school, seemed perfect, and growing up in a West Indian household, Notting Hill Carnival was a always a really big deal.”

Writing a book is never something he envisioned for himself but he is delighted with the outcome. He added: “I’m the last person who would read or write fiction. But a story came to me in a flash, it was my ‘Eureka’ moment.

“I started writing with a pen and pad in September 1997 and the book has gone through several changes.

“I’m extremely happy with it. When I first started writing I wasn’t a writer, I learned to write on the job, I learned about editing, proof reading. Pretty much everything you see in the book is me.”