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.

La belle France • For the best in French life, there’s nothing like a home in the country’s beautiful south-western region

First Officer Tessa Naran

Leave it to amateurs

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Just keep swimming

Making a beeline for Coventry

Winning in style

Ode to Suffolk

Good week for

Bad week for

Curlews need you

Pull the wool from your eyes

A posse of Queens

The fellowship of the stone

Country Mouse • International finery

Town Mouse • Shopping hell

Oh, the agony! • Agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • April ,

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Duke of Burgundy butterfly (Hamearis lucina)

Wines of the week • Dense dark red

Around in circles

It’s a piece of cake

Letters to the Editor

Rwanda is not the solution

Our great collections await rediscovery

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

Charlotte Mullins comments on Slave Ship • Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)

Birds in their little nests agree • As he repairs a fence that’s gone floppy thanks to the cattle rubbing against it, John Lewis-Stempel pauses on a warm April morning to admire all the birds busily building and lining their nests with cow hair

364 vs Australia, The Oval, 1938

A golden summer

What they said

The serene interior • Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire The home of William and Mercedes Bevan

A love letter to Norfolk • Dinky market towns and seal-strewn beaches? Local opinions, Sunday drives, Blackpool-of-the-East and early churches; this is novelist D. J. Taylor’s Norfolk and he wouldn’t want to live anywhere else

And they all lived together in a little crooked house • The Crooked House of nursery-rhyme fame has been through many incarnations in the past 600 years. Flora Watkins travels to the enchanting village of Lavenham, Suffolk, to meet its latest custodians

On the wings of a turtle dove • Dainty, smaller and darker than its collared cousin, the turtle dove is in danger of dying out, but not if a new Norfolk-based trust has anything to do with it, says Robin Page

Disappearing wild turtle doves: where have they gone?

There’s pickle in the jar • Friend of the cheese sandwich and bastion of the ploughman’s lunch, Branston Pickle has graced our cupboards for a century, finds Alec Marsh

What a pickle

Luxury News • Celebratory hampers

A few of my favourite things

Spring in his step • Softer casual shoes are, unsurprisingly, the favoured option of the moment. Avoid trainers and opt for a comfortable suede instead

Making spaces • There's an alchemy to creating houses that don't only function perfectly, but look beautiful, too

The designer's room • Dark-green cabinets, crisp white walls and wooden beams combine to create the ideal kitchen for a large family

The house of fun • In June, the Wow!house will offer a thrilling opportunity to see the work of...