To celebrate 100 years of British Airways, High Life Magazine asked ten British authors of the summer’s hottest holiday reads to pick their favourite UK destinations - in exactly 100 words!

Damian chose Brighton, because, “Brighton knows how to have a good time: it’s a city of festivals, freedom and progressive living. I first fell under the spell of the city and all it’s tales during a school trip in 1992. To a boy from small-village Scotland it was like Oz.”

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