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