The Brighton Line

Writers connected to the city

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Jessica Adams
John Agard
William Harrison Ainsworth
Steve Aylett
Enid Bagnold
Ros Barber
Neil Bartlett
Ian Beck
Arnold Bennett
Clementina Black
William Black
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Raymond Briggs
Liam Browne
Julie Burchill
Ethan Canter
Edward Carpenter
Nick Cave
Peter Chrisp
Winston Churchill
Brendan Cleary
Rose Collis
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Marie Corelli
Aleister Crowley
Rachel Cusk
Tony Diamond
Suzannah Dunn
Geoff Dyer
Mad Frankie Fraser
Katy Gardner
Annabel Giles
Eric Gill
Elinor Glynn
Hattie Gordon
Emily Gravett
Graham Greene
Nell Grey
Peter Guttridge
Harry Harrison
Tasha Harrison

Lee Harwood
Tony Hawkes
Jan Henley
James Herbert
John Howard

Jill Hucklesby

Mick Jackson

Peter James

Henry James
Gwyneth Jones
Susanna Jones
Philip King
Rudyard Kipling
Peter Kropotkin
Tim Lay
Danny Leigh
Amy Levy
David Lindsay
Toby Litt
Alison MacLeod
Pete McCarthy
Sheridan McCoid
Howard Marks
Florence Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat
Miriam Moss
Andrew Miller
Sue Mongredien
Peter J Murray
Tanya Murray
Grace Nichols
William Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
Simon Nolan
David Nwokedi
Hilda Offen
Sam 'O Reily
Jeremy Page
Chris Paling
Thomas Paine
Saviour Pirotta
Jeff Noon
Robert Rankin
Terence Rattigan
Daniel Raven
Graham Rawle
Louise Rennison
Elvi Rhodes
Chris Riddell
Dominica de Rosa
Sue Roe
Arnold Ruge
Partho Sen-Gupta
William Shaw
Ed Siegle
Nicky Singer
Catherine Smith
Nancy Spain
Paul Stewart
Adam Stower
Alexander Stuart
David Swann
Lynne Truss
Sue Walker
Susannah Waters
Charles Webb
Virginia Woolf
Rachel Wright
Helen Zahavi