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:
Literature
- Pride and Prejudice
- Mansfield Park
- The Ghost of Fountain Lane
- Hilda Lessways
- 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.
- Graham Greene
- Patrick Hamilton
- 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)
- Des Marshall
- The Fall
- Simon Nolan
- As Good As It Gets
- The Vending Machine of Justice
- 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)
- The "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series
- Limbo (2003) (ISBN 0-330-41161-6)
- Nigel Richardson
- Breakfast In Brighton (ISBN 0-575-40201-6)
Other
The fictional seaside town of Watermouth – the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man (1975) – bears a lot of resemblance to Brighton.
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.
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
- 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.
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