Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

WE SAY: What better way to start an online book journey than with a proper old classic, set in my hometown of Brighton.

Brighton Rock is a terrific page turner, especially when you consider it is over 80 years old. Graham Greene paints a vivid, seedy picture of Britain in the 30s, packed full of memorable characters and indelible scenes. When I moved to Brighton in the 90s, I couldn’t wait to discover all the locations in the book and the film and I was pleased to discover that so many of them still existed.

I highly recommend this book, a classic novel really shouldn’t be this enjoyable! The original  film, with Richard Attenborough, is definitely worth catching as well.

BRIGHTON ROCK REVIEWS

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.'

In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.

'Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE