Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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.

Mrs Charlotte Kendall • Charlotte works in private client management at W1M, a wealth and investment manager, and breeds Connemara and New Forest ponies with her sister, Alexandra. She is the daughter of Mary and the late Jack Summerfield of Stoke Trister, Somerset, and married Nicholas Kendall at Holy Trinity Church, Ingham, Norfolk, in September.

Constant gardening

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

When David took on Goliath

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Bessie Carter

Country-house treasures

The legacy • Hugh Hudson and Chariots of Fire

A royal success • In only three years, The King has overseen a remarkable resurrection of the gardens and parkland at Sandringham. Charles Quest-Ritson visits

Ruin and renaissance • In the second of two articles, John Goodall describes the antiquarian rediscovery of this important Jacobean house and its recent spectacular renewal

Baby, it’s cold outside • When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals

An unfenced existence • Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside

Leave farmers to produce food • Seventy years ago, the Goverment promised farmers that it would help them ‘wring the last ounce of food from the land’. Will we hear those words again?

Come fly with me • A combination of spellbinding sport and profound empathetic connection, falconry–a partnership in which the bird maintains the upper hand–offers a window into ‘the deeper magic’, discovers Mary Skipwith

Back to the future • From prawn cocktail and Arctic roll to starched tablecloths and ‘nicotine cream’ on the walls, it’s out with the new and in with the old in the restaurant world, says David Ellis

A plum job • For dressing up or staying in, juicy purples are ripe for the picking, believes Amie Elizabeth White

The designer’s room • DeVOL has created a family kitchen at Raynham Hall, one of England’s earliest neo-Palladian houses

Armless fun • Slipper chairs to delight, selected by Amelia Thorpe

The enchanting East • From moated manors to modern woodland homes, East Anglia offers potential buyers serenity and history in equal measure, not to mention easy access to the capital for those who must occasionally leave the countryside behind

Thatch me if you can • Despite their clichéd ‘chocolate-box’ description, thatched cottages are generally showstoppers. They tend not to remain on the market for long, so, for this quintet, it may be a case of he (or she) who hesitates is lost

Fit for a king • Two properties on the Sandringham estate, Norfolk, filled with royal treasures aplenty and stylishly refurbished, are now available as holiday lets, finds Adam Hay-Nicholls

Everybody’s got a Hungary heart • The classifications of the Eastern European country’s rustic, paprika-spiked gulyás stews are as...