Brighton in fiction

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

Literature[]

• Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Mansfield Park (1814)

• John Roman Baker

Brighton Darkness (2015)

Nick & Greg (2016)

Time of Obsessions (2017)

Nick's House (2018)

• Colin Bell

Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (2013)

Blue Notes, Still Frames (2017)

• Arnold Bennett

Hilda Lessways

• Julie Burchill

Sugar Rush

• Frances Burney

Evelina

• Nick Cave

The Death of Bunny Munro

• G. K. Chesterton

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.

• 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 (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)

Dead Man's Time (2013)

Want You Dead (2014)

You Are Dead (2015)

Love You Dead (2016)

Need You Dead (2017)

The Perfect Murder (2017)

Dead If You Don't (2018)

Dead at First Sight (2019)

Find Them Dead (2020)

Left You Dead (2021)

• Toby Litt

Beatniks

• Des Marshall

Journal of an Urban Robinson Crusoe (2003)

• Ian McEwan

Sweet Tooth

• Robert Muchamore

The Fall

• Simon Nolan

As Good As It Gets

The Vending Machine of Justice

• Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party

• Catherine Louisa Pirkis

The Ghost of Fountain Lane

• Robert Rankin

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

The Brightonomicon (2005)

• Phillip Reeve

Infernal Devices (2005)

• Louise Rennison

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series

• Andy Secombe

Limbo (2003)

• Nigel Richardson

Breakfast In Brighton

• Zoe Sugg

Girl, Online

• William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

• Tom Trott

You Can't Make Old Friends (2016)

Choose Your Parents Wisely (2017)

• Harry Turtledove

Settling Accounts: In at the Death - the final installment of the Southern Victory Series

• Helen Zahavi

Dirty Weekend

Television[]

• In Foyle's War Series Seven, Sgt. Milner accepts a promotion to Detective Inspector in Brighton. On multiple occasions he encounters Sam Stewart and Christopher Foyle in his jurisdiction, in connection with police cases.
• In Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins, The Rev. W. Awdry's most popular railway character arrives on Sodor, claiming to come from Brighton. Thomas is based on the LB&SCR E2 class, built in the famous railway works.
• Cuffs, BBC tv series (2015) about the police squad in Brighton.

Music[]

• Queen

"Brighton Rock" (1974) - song

• The Who

"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.

• Bird in the Belly's song 'Horace in Brighton' (2018) is based on the poem by Horace Smith. The poem details the poet's day trip to the City in 1813.
• Fabri Fibra

"Speak English" (2009) - song

Games[]

• In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008), Brighton Beach is the headstone for Soviet invasion of the British homeland. The Allied Commander, along with Giles Price, is tasked to repulse the Soviet invasion.

Other[]

The fictional seaside town of Watermouth – the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man (1975) – bears a resemblance to Brighton.^{[citation needed]}