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
- Brighton Darkness (2015)
- Nick & Greg (2016)
- Time of Obsessions (2017)
- Nick's House (2018)
- Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (2013)
- Blue Notes, Still Frames (2017)
- 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)
- Not Dead Yet (2012)
- Des Marshall
- Journal of an Urban Robinson Crusoe (2003) (ISBN 978-0-9528969-3-7)
- The Fall
- 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)
- Phillip Reeve
- Infernal Devices (2005)
- The "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series
- Limbo (2003) (ISBN 0-330-41161-6)
- Breakfast In Brighton (ISBN 0-575-40201-6)
- Zoe Sugg
- Tom Trott
- You Can't Make Old Friends (2016) (ISBN 1540745732)
- Choose Your Parents Wisely (2017) (ISBN 154511739X)
- Settling Accounts: In at the Death - the final installment of the Southern Victory Series
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.
- 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
- "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
- 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
The fictional seaside town of Watermouth – the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man (1975) – bears a resemblance to Brighton.
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