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.

Lockdown is boring. No, let’s emphasize that, lockdown is really boring. Walking for exercise is much less fun than it was last year because it’s a wet and muddy February, and with nowhere open, a ...

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 ...

Usborne has acquired three books by debut author P G Bell in what has been described as the publisher's “most significant acquisition to date”. Editorial director Rebecca Hill and fiction editor Becky ...

Usborne is launching Play and Learn at Home, a digital campaign to keep children stimulated during the lockdown, alongside reducing all its e-books to 99p across all platforms until the end of April.

My father, Peter Usborne, who died suddenly last spring, was passionate about meticulously crafted writing. So I have a very definite sense of him sitting on my shoulder as I write this, saying, “Make ...

Educational Development Corporation, publisher of Usborne and Kane Miller books in the U.S., has announced that, effective immediately, the company will no longer sell any of its books on Amazon or to ...

Our two day auction will be displaying a number of differing collections, including on Day One, textiles from Bhutan, Tibet and Nepal, The Tom Phillips Collection, The Zbyszek Collection, The David ...