Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Jemima Gray • Jemima is the founder of country-clothing brand Cotswold Fox. She is the daughter of Paul and Sarah Gray of Faringdon, Oxfordshire.

In search of the obscure

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

An inspector calls

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Beverly Joubert

Country-house treasures

A world of dreams • The desire for a retreat from the cares of the Prussian court and the formality of palace protocol created a neo-Classical masterpiece, as Aoife Caitríona Lau explains

Ian Fleming and James Bond

Zinging in the rain • Every season brings with it distinctive scents to tantalise our senses. Laura Parker breathes in deeply

A study in scarlet • One hundred years ago, the first all-red telephone box, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was installed in London. Deborah Nicholls-Lee lifts the receiver on a very British icon

A ghost in the gloaming • The spectral emergence of a barn owl, silently drifting across the sky at dusk, is one of Britain’s most magical sights. We must treasure their dwindling numbers

Five, six, pick up sticks • Like a squirrel or a jay caching nuts, John Lewis-Stempel wanders the woods collecting fallen boughs for the fire, an exercise in freedom and self-reliance unchanged since the Stone Age

Here comes the sun • Known for lying on the surface ‘sunning itself’, the parasite-infested ocean sunfish is an enthusiastic jellivore that gobbles up jellyfish, together with the occasional plastic bag

Offaly good • Forget fillet and pass on plastic-wrapped cuts: taking a nose-to-tail approach to dining offers the ultimate in magnificent, fully immersive eating, advocates Tom Parker Bowles

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • Born in Northern Ireland, food writer Diana Henry studied English Literature at the University of Oxford and was a BBC television producer for more than a decade, before following her taste buds around the world and starting to write. She has published 11 cookery books–her latest is Around the Table: 52 Essays on Food & Life, which gathers more than two decades of her work in one volume–and has weekly columns in The Telegraph Magazine and Waitrose Weekend. She lives in London with her children and, when not in the kitchen, can be found with her nose in a book.

Take a leaf • Add charm to winter months with jewellery inspired by Nature

Little luxuries • In any comfortable bathroom, it’s the small things that matter, finds Amelia Thorpe

From lull to lift–Wessex awakens • After a subdued 2025, early smoke signals suggest a more active year lies ahead for the property market in Somerset and Dorset

Cottage charm within reach • Characterful and historic boltholes don’t have to be unaffordable and this quintet has come to the market with asking prices of six–rather than seven–figures

A budding genius • Charles Quest-Ritson talks to Trevor White, whose Norfolk rose nursery is sought out by enthusiasts for the quality and variety of its stock

Having a wild time

Kitchen garden cook Kale

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