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==In pop culture== [[Daphne du Maurier]] based many novels on this part of Cornwall, including ''[[Frenchman's Creek (novel)|Frenchman's Creek]]''. The Lizard was featured on the [[BBC]] television programme ''[[Seven Natural Wonders]]'' as one of the wonders of the South West, and on the BBC series ''[[Coast]]''. In [[James Clavell]]'s novel ''[[Shōgun (novel)|Shōgun]]'', ship's pilot Vasco Rodrigues challenges John Blackthorne to recite the latitude of the Lizard to verify that Blackthorne is the Pilot of the Dutch vessel ''Erasmus''. The Jennifer McQuiston 2015 novel ''The Spinster's Guide to Scandalous Behavior'' is set primarily in the fictional village Lizard Bay on the Lizard in the mid-nineteenth century. In the television adaptation of "[[Horatio Hornblower]]", an order is given to "[[Weather the Lizard]]" in the episode ''[[Mutiny (2002 film)|Hornblower:Mutiny]]''. "Lizard Point" is also a track on the 1982 album ''[[Ambient 4: On Land]]'' released by [[Brian Eno]]. The book series "Fenton House" by Ben Cheetham is set on the Lizard Peninsula.
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