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:

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Literature

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)
Hilda Lessways
Trio (2021)
Sugar Rush
Evelina
The Death of Bunny Munro
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.
New Grub Street
Play to the End
Brighton Rock
Travels with My Aunt
Hangover Square
West Pier
The Golden Bowl
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)
Beatniks
Journal of an Urban Robinson Crusoe (2003)
Sweet Tooth
The Fall
As Good As It Gets
The Vending Machine of Justice
The Birthday Party
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)
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series
Limbo (2003)
Breakfast In Brighton
Girl, Online
Vanity Fair
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
Dirty Weekend

Television

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.
"Speak English" (2009) - song

Games

Other

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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