Brighton in fiction

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

• Jane Austen:

Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park

• 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

• 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

• 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