Colin Brown (8 April 1950 – 9 March 2020) was a British author and political journalist.
As a journalist, he covered breaking news in Downing Street and Westminster for more than 30 years.
Brown wrote the books: Fighting Talk – the biography of John Prescott (Simon & Schuster) and Prescott (Politico's), Whitehall - The Street That Shaped a Nation (Simon & Schuster), Real Britannia – Our Ten Proudest Years, the Glory and the Spin (Oneworld Publications) published in paperback as Glory and Bollocks, The Scum of the Earth – What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo?
(The History Press, 2015), Operation Big - the Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb (Amberley Publishing, 2016), and Lady M the Life and Loves of Elizabeth, Lady Melbourne (Amberley Publishing, April 2017).
[2] Brown died on 9 March 2020, after receiving treatment for brain cancer.