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 Willow Kemp • Willow is an interior architect and design director at Firmdale Hotels and Kit Kemp Design Studio. She is engaged to Henry Steel, whom she will marry at St Paul’s Church, London WC2, in June, and is the daughter of Tim and Kit Kemp.

How now, brown cow?

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

End the mega animal farm

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Lalage Beaumont

Oversailing beauty • A series of new plasterwork ceilings, collaboratively designed with the creating artist, has transformed the interiors of this fine house, as Jeremy Musson explains

R. D. Blackmore and Lorna Doone

Sand, sea and no signal • Some are firm favourites, others offer an unspoilt contrast and many require effort to reach them, but each of these Cornish creeks and coves, selected by Ben Lerwill, is a place of true beauty in which to while away the hours

A compelling yarn • Designed to protect the wearer from wind, rain, salt spray and sun, chunky gansey jumpers retain a special place in fishermen’s hearts, finds Jane Wheatley

Look who’s back • It’s no longer necessary to venture to tropical waters in order to catch a monster tuna, says Jonathan Young, as he attempts to land a big-game fish in Falmouth Bay

Stick to the point • Stick insects often find themselves transported to new abodes thanks to their talent for camouflage, but they are most at home in the West Country, suggests Ian Morton

Fishermen fighting for the future • At the first Tweed Salmon Festival, our correspondent finds there is much to be optimistic about in the fishing world, even if Salmo salar continues to decline

To infinity and beyond • Once extinct in these isles, the gargantuan, deep-diving osprey locks onto its piscine prey with a laser-like precision akin to the trajectory of a blunt-tipped missile

Will no one rid me of this turbulent weed? • Praised in poetry, cultivated by Duchesses and an important life force for insects, could it be that ragwort is unfairly maligned, asks Bethany Stone

Time for T • Raise the bar, says Hetty Lintell, with one of these ageless T-bar necklaces, to layer or wear alone and, no doubt, be pinched from a jewellery box by an eagle-eyed teenager

The great outdoors • Furniture and accessories to make the most of summer, selected by Amelia Thorpe

The write stuff • From picturesque settings to Forsyte Saga inspiration, the West Country has something for everyone

Making waves • You can’t go wrong with a waterside property in the West Country

On with the show • The thoughtful expansion of the existing garden over the past 30 years has added romance and drama to this historic monastic garden, finds Caroline Donald

Back off, snails

Kitchen garden cook Watercress

To a tea • Tregothnan is famously the home of the UK’s first tea gardens, but as Mark Hedges discovers, Camellia sinensis isn’t the only thing that flourishes in this charming corner of Cornwall

All you need is love • Drawings, prints and the ‘weirdly shaped’ and ‘unbelievably brave’ paintings from David Hockney’s early years fill an...