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.

Ms Claire Sadler • Claire is vice chair of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)—the first woman to hold the position—and head of legal at an artificial-intelligence company. She is mother to three-year-old Monty.

Make room for mushrooms

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

A weighty problem

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Zandra Rhodes • Big House in a Landscape by Duggie Fields

A home reborn • Returned from institutional use in the 1990s, John Martin Robinson reports on progress to one of the most ambitious restorations of an English country house

The legacy

Heal the land, heal the waters • Rivers have distinct stages of life, from infancy to extinction, they have teeth that cut through the land and they have been sullied by the hand of Man, says John Lewis-Stempel

You’ve got peemail • Ever wondered why your dog is so fond of sniffing another’s pee? Together with a host of other species, canines use urine as a vital method of correspondence, explains Laura Parker

Reasons to be thankful • A handful of English villages suffered no fatalities in the First World War. Stephen Roberts explores the memorials dedicated to those men who fought for their lives and managed to survive

The ghost hunters • Climbing, swimming and crawling, rare-plant hunters know no bounds when it comes to tracking down the botanical equivalent of the Holy Grail, says Peter Marren

Can I go where you go? • The tail end of October, shortly before the world falls into the frigidity of winter, offers a small window of foraged fungal delight for John Lewis-Stempel and his labrador Plum, an aspiring truffle hound

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • The former principal of the Royal Ballet was born in London in 1969 and educated at the Royal Ballet School, where she is now the Artiste Laureate. Her broadcast work includes judging on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing. The ballerina retired in 2007, but returned to dance the Spirit of the Flame at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony. Her writing includes Darcey Bussell: A Life in Pictures and her autobiography. She was appointed an OBE in 1995, CBE in 2006 and DBE in 2018 and lives in London with her husband, Angus Forbes.

When the clock strikes midnight

Burning desires • Stoves and fireplaces that will bring a room to life

History in the making • ‘Any genteel Family, inclined to keep a Country House, may be accommodated’ at two exemplary rural estates

Pretty as a picture • Most cottages started life as agricultural workers’ dwellings with few creature comforts, but, modernised, their quirky proportions, wonky walls and beautiful settings ensure constant appeal, finds Arabella Youens

‘Let Nature never be forgot’ • It’s always fascinating to see what a high-profile gardening personality does with their own home. Tiffany Daneff visits Alan Titchmarsh’s Hampshire garden, to find a place of endless delights and charm

Growing together

Kitchen garden cook Squash

Royal nut of Jupiter • Introduced to Britain by the Romans, the increasingly rare walnut tree yields...