Simon Usborne

Freelance feature writer and reporter.

Telegraph Magazine
The couple trying to keep killer ‘zombie viruses’ at bay
The Guardian
How an app finally got me hooked on the piano
The Guardian
The regeneration project that became a £100m luxury ghost town
Telegraph Magazine
Death or jail: Inside the daredevil world of freeclimbers
Telegraph Magazine
Inside the cult of Tesla
The Guardian
‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters
The Guardian
‘They belonged somewhere’: the forgotten victims of one of London’s deadliest fires
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Financial Times
The amazing double life of Lhakpa Sherpa: Everest record breaker — and Connecticut house cleaner
Telegraph Magazine
‘I spent 10 years as a conflict negotiator. This is where Israel-Hamas talks have gone wrong’
The Guardian
‘Film is in my blood’: the secret cinema in the back of a London shop
Telegraph Magazine
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Silicon Valley's most modest billionaire
Financial Times
Kenton Cool: Risks and rewards in the death zone
The Sunday Times
One innocent email and the climate deniers smelt blood
The Sunday Times
Why Simon Reeve owes his career to Osama bin Laden
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Financial Times
Schloss Fuschl: a castle hotel fit for a von Trapp
Financial Times
Boswells, Oxford’s 280-year-old department store, is reborn as a hotel
Financial Times
Inside the elite Swiss school for hotel managers
Financial Times
The perfect Austrian ski resort — and why it’s fighting for survival
Financial Times
The unlikely story behind Soho's most flamboyant hotel
Financial Times
Inside the wild world of superyacht toys
Financial Times
In Menorca, the first ‘private Parador’ opens its doors
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Simon is an award-winning feature writer in London. Published in The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Vogue, GQ. Available for a range of writing work. Formerly a writer and editor at The Independent. A winner and nominee at the Press Awards.

simon@susborne.com