Peter Usborne, the founder of children's books publisher Usborne, has died at the age of 85. He died "suddenly but peacefully" surrounded by his family on Friday morning, the company confirmed.

Children’s publisher Peter Usborne has died at the age of 85, his publishing company has announced. Mr Usborne, described as a “genius” who had a “child-like energy and curiosity”, was also the first ...

Usborne creates books which spark curiosity, for children of all ages from non-fiction titles which make knowledge irresistible, to an award-winning fiction list. 350 new titles are published each ...

Children of the 1980s who had an interest in technology were lucky indeed. As well as the first generations of home computers at their disposal they had the expectation to program them, something ...

Fritha Lindqvist is to join Usborne in the newly created role of head of publicity, while Sophie McNeill has been appointed as global digital director of the children’s publisher. In her new role, ...

Richard Usborne, who died yesterday aged 95, was the author of two highly diverting studies of neglected bestsellers, Clubland Heroes (1953) and Wodehouse at Work (1961). In Clubland Heroes he was the ...

Children’s publisher Peter Usborne has died at the age of 85, his publishing company has announced. Mr Usborne was also the first managing director of Private Eye when the satirical magazine was ...

The iconic children's book publisher Peter Usborne has died at the age of 85. Usborne Publishing said their founder and chairman died yesterday "suddenly but peacefully" surrounded by his family.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Publishing giant Usborne has been in the computer books business for many, many decades, and its ...

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This iconic work, along with a lot of Asterix and a chunk of books about medieval arms and armour, occupied most of the lunches that I spent in the library during primary school. From where I was ...