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 Lana Virginia Gillah • Lana is a member of the national farms and rural estates team at Savills. She is engaged to Thomas Silvey, whom she will marry at Château Martinay, Provence, France, in June 2025, and is the daughter of John and Wendy Gillah of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Sea fever

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Celebration, not carping

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Greg Mosse

Wrestling alligators in a mud hole • When profanity becomes the verbal tic

Seaside splendours • Created for Merton Russell-Cotes’s wife in 1901 and then given to the town, the dazzling interiors of this house museum capture the spirit of the Victorian seaside, says Kathryn Ferry

The legacy Rowena Cade and the Minack Theatre

Water, water, everywhere • Spending his days working with traditional techniques and timber as Old Father Thames flows by only feet away, boatbuilder Mark Edwards’s career is steeped in history, Hollywood and royalty, discovers Ben Lerwill

If I only had a brain • A basic net of nerves in a soft, boneless body that wobbles and pulses through the water, the jellyfish is blooming on UK shores, but there’s no need to fear the ‘rise of slime’, says Helen Scales

What’s your flavour? • Combining local milk, natural flavourings and memories of summertime bliss, ice cream has provided small independent makers with an alternative way of life. Madeleine Silver gets the inside scoop

Shady characters • Sunglasses needn’t be boring, insists Hetty Lintell, who chooses bold colours that playfully clash with or match your wardrobe–much more fun

The call of the wild • A new generation of carefully considered garden buildings is offering places to work, play, cook, bathe and sleep, finds Amelia Thorpe

Elegant estates • From an Iron Age hill fort to a swimming pool that turns into a dance floor, these three estates in Shropshire and Berkshire are built to impress

Coast to coast • Glorious homes on cliff edges and estuaries and in seaside havens

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to Know

State of the art • Britain’s longest-established art school, the Royal Academy Schools, has emerged triumphant after major refurbishment, but few people even know it’s there, says Holly Black

Party like it’s 1969 • Strap on your dancing shoes: the glory days of partying in the capital have returned, finds Jemima Sissons

You can be anything • Whether you see her as a feminist icon or an underweight shopaholic, one thing’s for sure: Barbie is looking good for her age, says Susan Jenkins on the doll’s 65th birthday

Coasting ahead • Once the haunt of smugglers and sailors, the Hampshire seashore now shelters a garden where pre- and interwar plantings sit happily with impressive new areas, writes George Plumptre

Incy wincy little quince

Strawberry dreams • From symbolism to sensuality, the strawberry fruit in all its varieties has been alluring for millennia. The ripe scent and scarlet hue, Tom Parker Bowles decrees, sum up an English summer

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