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 Sophia Pelizzoli Wigg • Sophia is a self-taught ceramicist, stylist and film-maker, working between London and Amsterdam. She is the daughter of Francesca Pelizzoli and Simon Wigg of Parson’s Green, London.

A day in the slow lane

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Be brave, be unpopular

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Peter Jones

SAVE at 50 • On the 50th anniversary of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, Simon Jenkins, a trustee since 1975, looks back on the past half century of successes and failures

The legacy • The McWhirter brothers and Guinness World Records

Meet the coastal superheroes • From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel

Back to Brideshead • What do an enigmatic Caped Crusader, a sopping-wet Mr Darcy and Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell have in common? Believe it or not, British country houses, says Ben Lerwill, as he set-jets around the countryside

Suits you! • From knee-length numbers to a scandalous suit denounced by the Pope, the colourful history of swimwear has been brought to life by a glamorous London exhibition. Deborah Nicholls-Lee dives in

Coasting along • It’s time to hit the beach with Hetty Lintell’s selection of summery seaside accessories

The Experts’ Experts • COUNTRY LIFE’S Top 100 designers and architects reveal the outstanding specialists on whom they rely

It’s all about the view • As the second-home market continues to stall, buyers looking to secure a permanent home by the sea have some exciting coastal properties to consider

Like a duck to water • There’s no denying the appeal of waterfront property, which now sells for some 51% more than its inland equivalent, finds Knight Frank. Annabel Dixon explores the shore

Sheer bliss • Steep inclines and rocky outcrops are nothing to the owners of this coastal garden, which is filled with plants–many from the southern hemisphere–that thrive in such conditions, finds Caroline Donald

À la recherche du temps perdu

A smell by any other name • Reminiscent of love and with an unmistakable odour of death, the little stinkers of the natural world might incite repulsion, but they are only doing their job, pleads Ian Morton

Heavy petal • A new book on botanical bas-reliefs–exquisite casts of plants–is a testament to one artist’s relationship with the natural world. Catriona Gray meets her

I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying • Descended from the thirst-slakers that cooled Arabian nights, sorbets are a beguiling way to embrace the colours and flavours of the season, salivates Tom Parker Bowles

Long live the queen • In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

Tyger, tyger burning bright • When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was...