The Badminton Horse trials at 75
Country Life's Kate Green joins the podcast to talk about the tale of how the world's best three-day eventing competition came to be.
Country Life's Kate Green joins the podcast to talk about the tale of how the world's best three-day eventing competition came to be.
A new book by the photographer Gilbert McCarragher will give readers a first-look inside Derek Jarman's famous home on the shingle of Dungeness.
'There is beauty and there is poverty, order and corruption' — Carla Carlisle on Karen Blixen and Kenya.
A diamond-encrusted tortoise, a humble pencil case tied up with string and a cursed jewel: Felicity Day unwraps some of the best and worst presents given in literature
Rosamund Young, best-selling author of 'The Secret Life of Cows', has a new book out book called 'The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals'. We have an exclusive extract for Country Life readers.
Carla Carlisle applauds The Letters of Seamus Heaney and shares how she couldn't wait until Christmas to devour the collection from the late Irish poet
Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the late Martin Amis, who died last month.
From a sentence born of an exhausting teaching job, J. R. R. Tolkien crafted a series of fantastical novels that, 50 years on from his death, still loom as large in our imagination as Sauron’s all-seeing eye, says Matthew Dennison.
Carla has been having a bit of a New Year clear-out — albeit one which started last August, and which is NOT going particularly well...
Our columnist Jason Goodwin shares the books that have entertained and enlightened him this year.
Jonathan Self's chance encounter with a book shifts the way he sees his belongings... but how long will his urge to declutter last?
Barony House has changed a lot since the days when the great writer lived here, but it's not hard to see how he was inspired by these beautiful surroundings.
Don't just pick up the latest plastic toys with lights and noises – take a look at these gifts which kids will love just as much as you do.
The countryside filled the Matilda author Roald Dahl with joy and proved a constant source of inspiration, as Matthew Dennison reveals in a new biography of the prolific storyteller.
A chance encounter with a book stall opens the eyes of our columnist Agromenes as he sees England through the eyes of an American airman.
On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today.
Jack Watkins considers the timeless brilliance of Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.'
Nursery favourite Ruth Manning-Sanders believed it was every child’s birthright to enter a world of enchantment and occasional terrors, where good always triumphs over evil, discovers Matthew Dennison.