After leaving school, he spent "five years working a series of increasingly dead-end jobs",[6] before attending the University of Greenwich.

In 2010 he received the de Rohan Scholarship,[7] enabling him to study for an MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.

In 2013, Brown’s novel Fade To White was shortlisted for the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary.

A short, sharp satire on the war on terror, author Ben Myers described Real Monsters as "a memorable and moving portrait of the futility of 21st century conflict".

[9] His second novel Wild Life, "a compelling, chilling investigation into the dark instincts of masculinity",[10] was published in 2016, followed by Broadcast, a retelling of Faust,[citation needed] in 2017.