Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd 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.

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The best things in life

Country Life

Going, going, gunnera?

A positive step towards sustainability

Crafting their survival

Country Mouse • Feathered charm

Town Mouse • The turning of the year

Quiz of the week

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • January 5, 1924

Cabinet of curiosities

Time to buy

On this day… • January 3, 1892

A novel note

In the spotlight • Winter honeysuckle

Unmissable events

Wine o’clock • Rich and nutty

Time for tea • Genmaicha (gen-my-cha)

Letter of the week

Winter delight

Practise what you preach

A vibrant statement

Larder logic

Feline left out

Beefy addition

Strange sheep

Wait more, want less

Athena • Cultural Crusader

The way we were

My favourite painting Keith Halstead • A Norfolk Village, Aldeby

Thought for the year 2024 • Show an affirming flame

A fairy house • A stylish 1920s home brought the glamour of the theatre and Hollywood, as well as the most recent fashions of healthy living, to an incomparable Surrey setting, as Clive Aslet explains

Baby, it’s cold outside • Predicting the weather using folklore is not as lackadaisical as it might seem, says Lia Leendertz, as she reveals what we can look forward to this month

The foul-mouthed Miller and the prim Prioress • The pre-eminent poet of the English language, celebrated for his trailblazing literary wizardry, Chaucer’s time ‘is, and has always been, here and now’, finds Matthew Dennison

Bedtime reading

Let’s hear it for Britain • There are many good reasons to be proud of this sceptred isle, from great thinkers via Shakespeare to the electric kettle. Carla Passino selects 50 of the best

The designer’s room • The restoration of a bathroom at Ven House in Somerset is sympathetic to its historic roots

Making a splash • Ideas for creating a luxury bathing and dressing sanctuary at home, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Lands of hope and glory • Farms and estates did not lose their appeal in 2023, with some local buyers and even a happy ending to a long-running Cornish dispute

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Shop of the month • V V Rouleaux, 102, Marylebone Lane, W1

Seasonal suggestions • Go to one of London’s hot new restaurant openings

A closer look at • Wall screw-moss (Tortula muralis)

Here’s looking at Chinatown

My plate of view • Murano, 20, Queen Street, W1

Property of the week • 10, Upper Grosvenor Street, W1

In the hot seat • Jo Hansford

Do not pass go • Mayfair

Talk of the town • With his inside-out buildings, wedged skyscrapers and skyline-poking struts, Richard Rogers changed the London landscape, as well as pioneering sustainable urban living, as Carla Passino discovers

At home in Richard Rogers’s London

What’s on in London • Gilly Hopper rounds up the best things to do in the capital in 2024

On the hour, every hour • The Greenwich Time Signal has been a...