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Tickled pink: Jewellery designers are united in their love for colourful gemstones
Felix Bischof talks to six jewellery designers and auctioneers about their standout pieces of colourful jewellery from 2025.
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Country Life's top 10 travel articles of 2025, including the Scottish survival experience beloved by David Beckham and what a A-list ski resort does when it stops getting snow
Country Life's Travel Editor takes a look back at the most read travel pieces of 2025.
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A huge farmhouse that mixes Georgian charm with an 80 foot party barn and a swimming pool
If the Christmas and New Year period left you hankering after a home where you could really go to town with your celebrations, Julie Harding has the answer: a house with a huge party barn.
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The lynx effect: It's about time to reintroduce this shy predator
Beavers and red kites may be flourishing in Britain, but the reintroduction of apex predators here is a trickier issue. Could there be practical and philosophical benefits and would a trial release of lynx be a worthwhile experiment?
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The 12 types of hangover, from 'Backwards Binoculars' to 'Titanic', and how to cure them all
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.
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What to expect from Country Life in 2026
And many thanks for all your support in 2025.
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Six things that Britain should be proud of, from world-class restaurants and Championship-winning cars to the countryside
It is too easy to dismiss 2025 as a downbeat year of failure, but good things did happen.
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The 12 biggest country property sales of 2025, from 'one of the finest homes in the Cotswolds' to a £5 million cottage in Cornwall
Momentum came and went during 2025, but agents around the UK showed time and again that exceptional country houses continue to sell, proving that quality and sensible pricing still cut through uncertainty. Penny Churchill reports.
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The good, the bad and the overblown: Michael Billington looks back at the year on stage
The best, worst, most underrated and most irritating performances of 2025.
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What you'll find in the December 31, 2025, issue of Country Life — and how to subscribe or get your copy
Country Life December 31, 2025, takes a tour of Britain in 50 treasures, and much more. Plus, find out how to save on the cover price when you take out a subscription.
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Country Life's top 10 Instagram posts of 2025, from a historic yew hedge to rocking around The Ritz Christmas tree
You liked two things above all else this year: country houses and dogs. Surprise, surprise. With plenty of stories and a slice of cake thrown in for good measure.
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Our favourite Frontispieces of 2025
Will Hosie takes a look back at some standout Frontispiece portraits from the previous 12 months.
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The Convent Garden of Il Redentore: A Venice masterpiece that's finally opened its gates after 450 years of total privacy
The recent exemplary restoration by Paolo Pejrone of the 16th-century monastic gardens is not to be missed, writes Tim Richardson. Photographs by Nicolò Tacconi/Orto Giardino del Redentore.
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Happy New(foundland) year to all
Gentle, heroic and devoted — there is no better dog with which to welcome the year ahead.
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The real-life Manderley, and the other country houses that inspired Daphne du Maurier
The writer Daphne du Maurier was fascinated by the English country house. Jeremy Musson explores her evocation of these buildings with the help of photographs from the Country Life Image Archive and a series of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice.
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Forget Bond, the understated George Smiley is fiction's greatest spy
As a new exhibition in Oxford charts John le Carré’s legacy, Emma Hughes takes a closer look at his most enduring creation, George Smiley.
