Brighton in fiction

Brighton in fiction

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"::"Dead Man's Footsteps"
*Toby Litt::"Beatniks"
*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::""
*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"


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