Brighton in fiction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (June 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

The town of Brighton has featured in the following works of fiction:

• Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park

• Mike Bennett

One Among the Sleepless - a podcast novel

• Julie Burchill

Sugar Rush

• Frances Burney

Evelina

• G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy (1908) Featuring an English explorer who slightly miscalculated his course so as to plant the British flag on that barbaric temple which turned out to be the Pavilion at Brighton.

• George Gissing

New Grub Street

• Robert Goddard

Play to the End

• Graham Greene

Brighton Rock

Travels with my Aunt

• Patrick Hamilton

Hangover Square

West Pier

• Henry James

The Golden Bowl

• Peter James

Dead Simple

Looking Good Dead

Not Dead Enough

• Simon Nolan

As Good As It Gets

The Vending Machine of Justice

• Robert Rankin

The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived (1995) Featuring an unnamed seaside town on the south coast with two piers.

The Brightonomicon (2005)

• Phillip Reeve

Infernal Devices (2005) (Fictional)

• Louise Rennison

The "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series

• Andy Secombe

Limbo (2003) (ISBN 0-330-41161-6)

• Nigel Richardson

Breakfast In Brighton (ISBN 0-575-40201-6)

• William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

• Harry Turtledove

Settling Accounts: In at the Death

• Helen Zahavi

Dirty Weekend

• Clare Mcintyre

My Heart's a Suitcase

The fictional seaside town of Watermouth—the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man—bears a lot of resemblance to Brighton.

• John Hart

Jizz