Brighton Literary Pubs Walking Tour Brighton

The seafront hotel where Charles Dickens wrote early chapters of Dombey and Son and staged amateur theatricals for charity.

A seafront arch bar that appears in Brighton Rock, sitting fifty feet below the grand hotels at the low end of the town's social scale.

The centuries-old pub where Graham Greene drank while researching the back-street Brighton of Brighton Rock.

The Theatre Royal's local, where actors and writers have gathered before and after performances for generations.

A Victorian freehouse in the neighbourhood that stayed cheap long enough to become home to Brighton's working writers and artists.

A Hanover local that sustains Brighton's contemporary literary scene rather than commemorating a historical one.

The pub by the station where visiting writers traditionally end up for one last pint before the train back to London.

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