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
  • Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
  • Patrick Hamilton
Hangover Square
West Pier
  • Henry James
The Golden Bowl
  • Peter James
Dead Simple
Looking Good Dead
Not Dead Enough
  • 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