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[edit]
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Brighton Darkness (2015)
- Nick & Greg (2016)
- Time of Obsessions (2017)
- Nick's House (2018)
- 2020 (2020)
- Love and Cowardice (2021)
- Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (2013)
- Blue Notes, Still Frames (2017)
- Trio (2021)
- 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.
- 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)
- Des Marshall
- Simon Nolan
- As Good As It Gets
- The Vending Machine of Justice
- The Ghost of Fountain Lane
- The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived (1995) features an unnamed seaside town on the south coast with two piers.
- The Brightonomicon (2005)
- Infernal Devices (2005)
- Limbo (2003)
- Breakfast In Brighton
- Tom Trott
- You Can't Make Old Friends (2016)
- Choose Your Parents Wisely (2017)
- Settling Accounts: In at the Death - the final installment of the Southern Victory Series
Television[edit]
- 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[edit]
- "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.
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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]
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