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.

Miss Katherine Jane Lion

Three cheers for gardens

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

The people vs the Post Office

Athena • Cultural Crusader

The way we were

My favourite painting Andy Murray

The Elysian Hunt gains a subscriber • Farewell, then, to a robust countryman and soldier, member of a dying breed

Floral fireworks • In the nick of time, the National Collection of Dahlias was saved from being grubbed up in 2020. Kirsty Fergusson visits the 1,700 dahlias now happily settled in their new home and finds out the best to order now for late-summer colour

Cold cures • Why cloches and cold frames are the gardener’s best friends

Twist and shout • Tiffany Daneff visits Morton Hall in Worcestershire to discover the secret of its owner’s new clematis-training technique

Why, why, why weigela? • The new forms have large, repeating flowers in a variety of wonderful colours, giving every reason to buy them, says Charles Quest-Ritson

Get ahead, get a gardener

The garden of Albion • In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at masterpieces of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement and the family story that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited

They danced by the light of the moon • As the sun grows weary and the moon slides into the velvety night sky, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on her many guises

Engaged in conversation • ‘White diamonds are still most popular with my clients,’ says engagement ring concierge Beanie Major (www.indtl.com), ‘but more recently with interesting and modern setting techniques.’

The bridges of the British county • Bridges have existed since early man used a fallen tree and the best inspire awe for their scale, silhouette or romantic beauty. Jack Watkins picks his favourites throughout Britain

Interiors The designer’s room • Thomson Carpenter has transformed a converted stable by artfully mixing old and new–as well as adding some playful touches

The barn conversion grows up • Leaps and bounds in the standard of interior architecture are transforming a new generation of barn conversions

Pull up the drawbridge • Two moated houses of East Anglia have impressive histories

Bright futures • Where sunlight might reach the farthest, darkest corners, whatever the season

Kitchen garden cook Blood oranges

Presence makes the heart grow fonder • Over the years, a black Formica coffee table that had started life as an ‘optimistic purchase’ became a much-cherished part of art dealer Thomas Woodham-Smith’s family life

Variety show • Paul Delvaux’s disquieting works take centre stage at this year’s BRAFA in Brussels, Belgium, and the fair’s diverse selection also includes contemporary sculpture, 16th-century tapestries, architectural antiques and indigenous masks

The deer dilemma

The play should be the thing • Sir Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll is deeply affecting, but the headphones for Macbeth are disengaging and a Netflix prequel descends into total piffle

Bridge and crossword

All you need is love and work

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