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 Eleanor Morris • Eleanor is head of people and culture at Azumi, covering the group’s restaurants in Britain and Europe. She is the daughter of Sam and Nicola Hickling of Chislehurst, Kent, and married Alexander Morris in Marche, Italy, in June.

Season of plenty

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Evolution, not revolution

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting The Singh Twins

Country-house treasures

Not so hellish • In the first of two articles, Tim Richardson offers a surprising perspective on one of the most celebrated landscapes of late-18th-century England

The legacy • Sir William Hillary and the RNLI

Art and soul • Starting a new collection can be daunting. Art advisor Patrick Monahan shares his top tips on what and how to buy and what to avoid

Forever hold your piece • Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

Raise your steaks • Using côtes de boeuf from eight different native breeds, Will Hosie asks the country’s top culinary minds which animal produces the best beef

All in the mind • From Regency medicine men to the technicolour world of The Beatles, the history of psychedelic mushrooms is richer than we might expect, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Threading lightly • Make the early days of the knitwear season all the more enjoyable with Amie Elizabeth White’s delectable selection of cashmeres and wools

Up the wall • New paints and papers, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Take the Welsh waters • Three magnificent country houses in Welsh river valleys offer commercial prospects, fishing–and blissful peace

The most important room in the house • Stone-flagged floors, dressers, scrubbed tables and a hound snoozing in front of a glowing range cooker are the hallmarks of a classic farmhouse kitchen. Arabella Youens finds homes with hearts

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to know

Keeping up with the Americans • Political refugees, economic migrants and devoted Anglophiles are transforming the city one luxury apartment at a time, finds Will Hosie

Upwardly mobile • Keen collectors sooner or later find their way to the outstanding trees and shrubs at Bluebell Arboretum in Derbyshire, writes Charles Quest-Ritson. It’s a wonderful sight at this time of year

The quince secret

Kitchen garden cook Apples

Travel News Private escapes

I want to be in your club • London has long been the private members’ club capital of the world, but New York, US, is finally catching up, says Owen Holmes, who rounds up five of the best

Jet-set pets • There’s no longer any need to leave your favourite four-legged friend behind when you go on holiday, says Richard MacKichan, because hotels, superyacht designers and airlines are all setting new standards for pet-friendly travel

A head for heights

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