Brighton in fiction

The British city of Brighton has featured in the many works of fiction, and other genres of popular culture, such as the following:

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Literature

Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Hilda Lessways
Sugar Rush
Evelina
The Death of Bunny Munro
Orthodoxy (1908) features 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.
New Grub Street
Play to the End
Brighton Rock
Travels with My Aunt
Hangover Square
West Pier
The Golden Bowl
  • Dead Simple (2005)
  • Looking Good Dead (2006)
  • Not Dead Enough (2007)
  • Dead Man's Footsteps (2008)
  • Dead Tomorrow (2009)
  • Dead Like You (2010)
  • Dead Man's Grip (2011)
  • Not Dead Yet (2012)
Beatniks
Journal of an Urban Robinson Crusoe (2003) (ISBN 978-0-9528969-3-7)
Sweet Tooth
The Fall
As Good As It Gets
The Vending Machine of Justice
The Birthday Party
The Ghost of Fountain Lane
The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived (1995) features an unnamed seaside town on the south coast with two piers.
The Brightonomicon (2005)
Infernal Devices (2005)
The "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series
Limbo (2003) (ISBN 0-330-41161-6)
Breakfast In Brighton (ISBN 0-575-40201-6)
Girl, Online
Vanity Fair
Settling Accounts: In at the Death - the final installment of the Southern Victory Series
Dirty Weekend

Other

The fictional seaside town of Watermouth – the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man (1975) – bears a resemblance to Brighton.

Games

Music

"Brighton Rock" (1974) - song
"Pinball Wizard" (1969) - song
Quadrophenia (1973) - studio album, and the group's second rock opera. Its story involves social, musical and psychological happenings from an English teenage perspective, set in London and Brighton in 1965.

Television

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