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 Molly McDonald • Molly is the founder of Blue Door Productions, which specialises in adventure films, illuminating record-breaking expeditions and challenges from around the world. She is the daughter of Daniel and Lauren McDonald of New York City, US.

The news in 2026

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Lighting the lamp of freedom

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Jacu Strauss

Country-house treasures

Culture and commerce • Over the past 40 years, a remarkable experiment has brought about the revival of an imposing and vast Victorian factory building, finds John Martin Robinson

Dangerous libations • Have you been tricked by the Deceiver or flattened by a Steamroller? Wine expert Olly Smith sets out the 12 different sorts of festive hangover, and how to cure them

Learn it by art • Charlotte Mullins explores the visual history of the British Isles in 50 treasures, from Ice Age caves to the Royal Museums Greenwich, via the Uffington White Horse and Sutton Hoo

Are you ready to order? • As time capsules offering a unique glimpse into our appetites, menus have always been highly collectible, finds John F. Müller

The shape of things to come • COUNTRY LIFE’s interior-design predictions for 2026

You can’t be serious • Why painted furniture can offer the key to relaxed interiors

Routine check • Enter the new year with your best face forward, courtesy of Amie Elizabeth White’s winter skincare picks

Discerning buyers ensure a buoyant market • Although momentum came and went during 2025, agents around the UK report that exceptional country houses continued to sell, proving that quality and sensible pricing still cut through uncertainty

Glistens like coral • So many new types of Japanese flowering quince are now available that they have been the subject of a four-year trial by the RHS. Charles Quest-Ritson picks his favourites

Le Clos closes

Kitchen garden cook Cabbage

Ship ahoy • Henry Scott Tuke could capture the atmosphere of the sea even when painting a New Year card for a friend, auctioneer Michael Grist tells Carla Passino

Travel between the lines • Daniel Pembrey picks out his top travel books of 2025

Bridge and crossword

Shades of grey

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