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.

Miss Genevieve Chenneour • Genevieve is an actress and former synchronised swimmer who has starred in Bridgerton and in 1242: Gateway to the West. She is the daughter of Alice Chenneour of the New Forest, Hampshire, and Tim Randall of Calne, Wiltshire.

Rural resolutions

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Seize the moment

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Helen Allen

Country-house treasures

A peculiar genius • This year is the centenary of one of the most celebrated holiday villages in the British Isles. Kathryn Ferry tells the remarkable story of this Picturesque creation

Agatha Christie and the murder mystery

Pour show • The cacophonous, cider-slinging midwinter tradition of wassailing is an ancient one that continues to this day. Laura Parker offers a toast to harvests anew

Shoot for the stars • Lucy Ford, Emily Anderson and Carla Passino pick 22 momentous photographs from the past 100 years that have recorded our history–or have gone on to make history themselves

Playing your cards right • Packs of cards are ubiquitous, from the drawing room to the camp fire and the pub snug, but how did they end up here? Where do the suits we know and love actually come from? Matthew Dennison shuffles the deck

Top gear • Master ski-season style with Amie Elizabeth White’s alpine-ready selection

The designer’s room • The boot room of this Grade II*-listed house in Gloucestershire has been designed with longevity in mind

Moveable feasts • Freestanding kitchens offer a world of possibilities–including the chance to take them with you

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to know

Tate-à-tête • The National Gallery’s announcement of a new wing and more modern art–enabled by an unprecedented £375 million fund–promises to reignite a historic rivalry with Tate. Will Hosie investigates

Shining a light on the past • Safely stored in a dark vault in London, the dried specimens of Carl Linnaeus’s 18th-century herbarium–the basis for the worldwide system of plant naming still in use today–have been revealed in their true colours. Christopher Stocks reports

Grow something new this year

Kitchen garden cook Seville oranges

On top of the world • Pamela Goodman journeys to Shakti Prana, a remote lodge with peerless views of sacred mountains in the Himalayas, only accessible on foot

What the Normans did for us

Against all odds • Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

All hands on decor • Ushering in the New Year are the Decorative Fair, brimming with good-quality antiques, and the London Art Fair, with its tradition of tipping artists in the early stages of their career

Winter’s tales • The 1962 freeze, spies, murder and golf–here are four novels to absorb as we wait for the days to lengthen

Holy mackerel! • Spry, shimmering and occasionally even sanctified, the indefatigable mackerel is the...