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 Esme Imogen Higgs • Esme is an equestrian and country lifestyle influencer, podcaster and author. She is also a World Horse Welfare patron and Brooke Charity ambassador.

Forces of Nature

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

It’s the small things

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Sarah Bardwell

Murder on the palace floor • To coincide with the publication of a new history of the palace, John Goodall offers an overview of the creation, abandonment and rebirth of this working royal residence over the past 900 years

The legacy • Dick Potts and conservation

This perfumed arcadia • Home to the iconic skylark, the chalk downlands are as colourful and botanically diverse as rainforest. John Lewis-Stempel explores England’s oldest manmade habitat

Meet the tusk force • The Chinese water deer, with its distinctive tusks and delicious venison, has thrived here since escaping from deer parks in the 19th century. Paula Lester stalks one for her supper

Duck and cover • With a comical and heart-warming call, the eider or ‘cuddy duck’ is a convivial bird that was highly favoured and protected by Northumberland’s patron saint, says Harry Pearson

A nose for Nature • With an uncanny ability to detect elusive species in the wild, dogs are poised to play a vital role in conservation and biosecurity, discovers Alexa Phillips

Once upon a time in the west • Having returned to the fabled Grimersta lochs and streams of Lewis for the first time in 40 years, our correspondent finds himself reliving the glory days when the pools ‘seemed paved with fish’

England at its best • The Exmoor National Park Authority is celebrating its 70th birthday. Kate Green recounts what makes this ‘high country of the winds’, of deer, dark skies, tough ponies and resilient farmers, so special

Like a fine wine • Autumn calls for richer tones in your wardrobe, says Hetty Lintell, and burgundy is top of her list

Hooked on classics • A new generation of designers is learning the language of Greek and Roman architecture, finds Matthew Dennison

And they’re off! • Four historic country houses with long-standing racing credentials come to the market in prime sporting areas of Berkshire and Oxfordshire

You had me at Merlot • The British wine industry is growing at a rate of Nebuchadnezzars, altering the palate of the countryside market, finds Annunciata Elwes

Where her tears fell, asters grew • Small-flowered asters, with their quiet beauty and clouds of starry blooms, are the final shout of autumn, advises John Hoyland

How to dig yourself out of a hole

Natural beauty • Sculptures to enhance an outdoor space, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Kitchen garden cook Parsnips

Buried treasure • More subtle in taste than their Continental cousins, our native truffles are well worth rooting for, with or without a pig, says John Wright

The hunger games • Bloodthirsty, beautiful and strangely captivating, our native carnivorous plants are as wild and wonderful as their overseas cousins, finds Deborah Nicholls-Lee

One-man revolution •...