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David Derbyshire is an English author and journalist.

Career
He studied social and political science at Clare College, Cambridge and did a postgraduate diploma in journalism studies at Cardiff University.

After three years at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Derbyshire worked for the Daily Mail in London as a science correspondent. He joined The Daily Telegraph as science and health correspondent in 2000 and became the paper's consumer affairs editor in 2004. In 2007 he returned to the Daily Mail as the environment editor, leaving in 2011 to become a freelance science, health and environment feature writer.

His first novel, The Sleep of Reason, co-authored with Sir Mark Rowley, the former Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police, will be published in April 2022 by Legend Press.