<![CDATA[ Latest from Country Life in Books ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/tag/books Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:42:26 +0000 en <![CDATA[ Borders, identity, and the truth about Cornish independence, with Richard Collett ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/people/borders-identity-and-the-truth-about-cornish-independence-with-richard-collett KDPwRAK98zhP8ePZxGWQQb Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:42:26 +0000 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:43:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ Justine Picardie: Fashion, spies and Elizabeth II's wardrobe, from timeless tweeds to a pair of Marigolds ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/people/justine-picardie-fashion-spies-and-queen-elizabeth-iis-wardrobe-from-timeless-tweeds-to-a-pair-of-marigolds X3tNVemE4ANMPoWyRq8LJN Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:57:58 +0000 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:13:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ I absolutely hated 'Wuthering Heights', but the film sounds like fun —and so now I'm moving to one of these impossibly remote and romantic farmhouses ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/northern-england/i-absolutely-hated-wuthering-heights-but-the-film-sounds-like-fun-and-so-now-im-moving-to-one-of-these-impossibly-remote-and-romantic-farmhouses ebfW2BKDSmNbdPAkKHd5rV Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'I first read this as a teenager and was open-mouthed at the sharp satire and the normalising of deep eccentricity': The books that the Country Life team return to again and again and again ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/country-life/i-first-read-this-as-a-teenager-and-was-open-mouthed-at-the-sharp-satire-and-the-normalising-of-deep-eccentricity-the-books-that-the-country-life-team-return-to-again-and-again-and-again tF76pQnAbQRrTdDgKQGyCX Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:01:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Houses of Guinness: A real-life 'Succession' with privileged characters, living extravagant lifestyles 'and revelling in their extraordinary lives' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/the-houses-of-guinness-a-real-life-succession-with-privileged-characters-living-extravagant-lifestyles-and-revelling-in-their-extraordinary-lives dGDoapam5WSudENX6MzQj8 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:51:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'Real children like it… I think it frightens some adults, but very few children': 75 years of The Chronicles of Narnia ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/real-children-like-it-i-think-it-frightens-some-adults-but-very-few-children-75-years-of-the-chronicles-of-narnia vqzEydTDwQSgXEZCxhUY5G Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:25:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Old Rectory for sale in a village up the road from Jane Austen's home, where the family lived that might have inspired some of her most memorable characters ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/the-old-rectory-for-sale-in-a-village-up-the-road-from-jane-austens-home-where-the-family-lived-that-might-have-inspired-some-of-her-most-memorable-characters zBM36KjNtckmNY4NNvTc4m Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:01:00 +0000 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:23:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ Books: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists and the Life and Work of Sir Lawrence Weaver ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/travel/books-in-the-footsteps-of-the-great-artists-and-the-life-and-work-of-sir-lawrence-weaver uToQb49o5qEjCWVfKSnJLE Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:59:54 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'You have to work hand in hand with the author — like a dancer has to work with the music': Illustrating Homer's epic poems ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/you-have-to-work-hand-in-hand-with-the-author-like-a-dancer-has-to-work-with-the-music-illustrating-homers-epic-poems EGS5m5zQrc9agdc3rWvuPL Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:57:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ ‘They remain, really, the property of all of those who love them, know them, and tell them. They are our stories, the inheritance of the people of Scotland’: The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/they-remain-really-the-property-of-all-of-those-who-love-them-know-them-and-tell-them-they-are-our-stories-the-inheritance-of-the-people-of-scotland-the-anthology-of-scottish-folk-tales rbGm7iWEGipogZr67hwVa3 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:02:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:57:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ ‘The perfect hostess, he called her’: A five minute guide to Virgina Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/people/the-perfect-hostess-he-called-her-a-five-minute-guide-to-virgina-woolfs-mrs-dalloway kPoB9hCGYQLduWSqrW82Nf Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ Simon Armitage: 'I've tried getting AI to write poems —and they've all been reassuringly awful' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/podcast/simon-armitage-ive-tried-getting-ai-to-write-poems-and-theyve-all-been-reassuringly-awful uDKk6d7iAvHhsVNC4mpaWH Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:58:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'To exist in this world relies on the hands of others': Roger Powell and modern British bookbinding ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/directory/art/to-exist-in-this-world-relies-on-the-hands-of-others-roger-powell-and-modern-british-bookbinding ekH7ozU8QVsX7UEtv23VxY Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:02:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:35 +0000 <![CDATA[ The five minute guide to 'The Great Gatsby', a century on from its publication ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/the-five-minute-guide-to-the-great-gatsby-a-century-on-from-its-publication 2Y3yq8b2TUGCZKWt8XpZuW Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ A new rose named after The Princess of Wales highlights our near-universal obsession with the flower ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/resilient-promiscuous-and-rambunctious-a-new-book-celebrates-our-near-universal-obsession-with-the-rose UxGXTAVcYgF3eAkCXMC3QE Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:02:00 +0000 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:46:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ Why size doesn't matter if you've got some decorating derring-do ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/interiors/why-size-doesnt-matter-if-youve-got-some-decorating-derring-do stUtVtfXpPefiSAohAXofF Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Dawn Chorus: How to travel around the world in 19 flowers and the Mini Moke that took St Moritz by storm ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/dawn-chorus-how-to-travel-around-the-world-in-19-flowers-and-the-mini-moke-that-took-st-moritz-by-storm cgrAtrgNazWRppBweRmEp4 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:19:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ When London was beginning to establish itself as modern cultural powerhouse: The 1980s according to David Bailey ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/when-london-was-beginning-to-establish-itself-as-modern-cultural-powerhouse-the-1980s-according-to-david-bailey acyUbwz5WeC9QaDGsoQnWi Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:05:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ The life and times of P. G. Wodehouse, 50 years on from his death ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/the-life-and-times-of-p-g-wodehouse-50-years-on-from-his-death wKGoVfshABKuWhEvPGtcEE Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:30:00 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ Prophet, playboy, and provocateur: How meeting Peter Beard changed my life ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/people/prophet-playboy-and-provocateur-how-meeting-peter-beard-changed-my-life 3bVWpci6a78x3hktRbwoof Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:30:10 +0000 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:48:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ How to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/jane-austen-anniversary-161593 hhsHXRLU8reuY9DJNkCJ3c Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:30:24 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ Unputdownable: 12 page turners to see you through the rest of the winter ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/theatre-film-music/unputdownable-the-page-turners-of-2024-278493 nrUJGFucVjhQAE23V2LdQr Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:30:57 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:24:49 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 12 architecture books you should read in 2025, by our architectural editor John Goodall ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/the-12-architecture-books-you-should-read-in-2025-by-our-architectural-editor-john-goodall-278006 ruUFUVco1n9tbv8yCkirFR Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:00:53 +0000 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:41:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ The story of how 007 creator Ian Fleming came to write Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/curious-questions-how-did-007-creator-ian-fleming-come-to-write-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-274640 eyb4n99VaLX1wGo1cQftq Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:00:12 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:58:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ London as you've never seen it —and as you'll never see it again ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/london-as-youve-never-seen-it-and-as-youll-never-see-it-again-274656 rzY9mvLMmU9kDnsscG8xtM Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:30:38 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'It may be vain to think that the past was a cleaner, quieter and kinder place, but it felt pretty decent when you knew your GP and your GP knew you, and milk in glass bottles was delivered every morning' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/it-may-be-vain-to-think-that-the-past-was-a-cleaner-quieter-and-kinder-place-but-it-felt-pretty-decent-when-you-knew-your-gp-and-your-gp-knew-you-and-milk-in-glass-bottles-was-delivered-every-mor-274438 qmRbZYoeDfaWG88AoAMk28 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:00:07 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ Poems about pies, the foul-mouthed parrot upstaging Margaret Atwood and starting World War III via Desert Island Discs: Ian McMillan on the Country Life Podcast ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/podcast/poems-about-pies-the-foul-mouthed-parrot-upstaging-margaret-atwood-and-starting-world-war-iii-via-desert-island-discs-ian-mcmillan-on-the-country-life-podcast-273972 xmS4NK4bNTFGKhcBQWXTmM Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:12:06 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:22:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 'holy grail' of JRR Tolkien's letters are up for sale, showing his anger at his editors and the 'priggery' of Sherlock Holmes ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/the-holy-grail-of-jrr-tolkiens-letters-are-up-for-sale-showing-his-anger-at-his-editors-and-the-priggery-of-sherlock-holmes-271915 qhMRba4puZzidKc6NbVmN1 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:19:29 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'The Swiss Army Knife of foods': Untangling the truth and lies around milk ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-drink/the-swiss-army-knife-of-foods-untangling-the-truth-and-lies-around-milk-271013 ucZjsZXpzq124JVFaQu4hy Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:40:56 +0000 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:01:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ Patrick Galbraith: We are a brilliant and terrible species who messed it up a long time ago —and that means we have to do things we don't want to ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/patrick-galbraith-we-are-a-brilliant-and-terrible-species-who-messed-it-up-a-long-time-ago-and-that-means-we-have-to-do-things-we-dont-want-to-270303 4jANSVAxWWgBydgrThAa8G Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:00:56 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Badminton Horse trials at 75 ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/podcast/the-badminton-horse-trials-at-75-267630 fHpxGZuowNLno7SciXyZxq Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:00:58 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:22:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ A look inside Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/a-look-inside-derek-jarmans-prospect-cottage-266909 rrv86dtKUJEkRcuzifkCaq Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:09 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:07:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'From the first page until the last, I was in another country, another world... It was like falling in love' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/from-the-first-page-until-the-last-i-was-in-another-country-another-world-it-was-like-falling-in-love-266578 vTTUrjxJVy4s19axzVV3JU Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:00:16 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ Think what you got for Christmas was bad? The worst presents in literature will cheer you up... ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/lifestyle/think-what-you-got-for-christmas-was-bad-the-worst-presents-in-literature-will-cheer-you-up-263486 2GxYSZghkpykmmiv5N6Z31 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 07:00:27 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Wisdom of Sheep, by Rosamund Young: An exclusive extract for Country Life ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-wisdom-of-sheep-by-rosamund-young-an-exclusive-extract-for-country-life-263546 gyLMhjHbaPYgm7tSAm9xEZ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 07:00:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ Carla Carlisle: 'Seamus Heaney deserves a sainthood, as well as his Nobel Prize' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/carla-carlisle-nothing-amazes-me-more-than-poets-letters-something-that-will-vanish-in-the-age-of-email-263061 upqgUBDwQVwkcN9Au5vPUX Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:00:35 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ Are these the seven best independent bookshops in Britain? A writer makes her case ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/lifestyle/the-seven-best-independent-bookshops-as-picked-out-by-writer-catriona-gray-261283 iSQWd1faELDdc1yzVqXXtd Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:30:33 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ Carla Carlisle on Martin Amis: The 'passionate, graceful, fierce' writer who scared us, challenged us, and brought us understanding ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/carla-carlisle-on-martin-amis-the-passionate-graceful-fierce-writer-who-scared-us-challenged-us-and-brought-us-understanding-257252 kjvZ2xx2scMWH17ddrXMjf Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:00:05 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:59:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ J.R.R. Tolkien: The life and times of the lord of the books ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/theatre-film-music/j-r-r-tolkien-life-and-times-253697 k6cv7j9jbYXLzt6UKE8bsn Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:00:29 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ Carla Carlisle: 'Edit your one and precious life. Prepare for Judgement Day. Do it Now.' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/carla-carlisle-edit-your-one-and-precious-life-prepare-for-judgement-day-do-it-now-251322 4WHVmkJBJb1JJPWDQqBfGo Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:00:48 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ Jason Goodwin's books of the year 2022 ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/jason-goodwins-books-of-the-year-2022-250607 8RnXoDSes9WQE5CecKF8GX Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:00:13 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ 'By the time I reached chapter seven I was nauseated by the sheer volume of stuff I owned' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/by-the-time-i-reached-chapter-seven-i-was-nauseated-by-the-sheer-volume-of-stuff-i-owned-250847 4GsCBU5prvEkN59p3ieczX Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:00:49 +0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:58:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ Sir Walter Scott's delightful thatched home just outside Edinburgh has come up for sale ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/sir-walter-scotts-old-house-just-outside-edinburgh-has-come-up-for-sale-250803 nSS6isxbHtJV9zoZ34VwDT Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:00:23 +0000 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ Christmas gifts for children that don't need screens or take batteries ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/christmas-gifts-children-dont-need-screens-take-batteries-171176 2Hn5dy5tW7LqA6VCugkAA3 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:30:58 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ In Focus: How Roald Dahl's love of the countryside shaped his life's work ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/in-focus-how-roald-dahls-love-of-the-countryside-shaped-his-lifes-work-249122 cYdErGwQqA9H9uSjLUGDtp Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:30:53 +0000 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:56:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ The American airman's portrait of 1940s England that portrays a world that's already disappeared ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/agromenes-the-american-airmans-portrait-of-1940s-england-that-portrays-a-world-thats-already-disappeared-248976 47pLtxX7PRvxQGSnzmTurt Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:30:25 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ In Focus: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the poem of broken modern civilisation that seems more apt than ever ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/in-focus-t-s-eliots-the-waste-land-the-poem-of-broken-modern-civilisation-that-seems-more-apt-than-ever-248274 wL6yFK1Fr7BYCY3PH4apvR Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:00:09 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ In Focus: The enduring beauty of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/in-focus-the-enduring-joy-of-thomas-grays-elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard-247991 bnvT4K5ueLL1Rd86XFof48 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:00:28 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ The true mark of genius of Jane Austen's Persuasion? Even when its bad, it's still pretty good ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/the-true-mark-of-genius-of-jane-austens-persuasion-even-when-its-bad-its-still-pretty-good-246516 sC1hZoDLjo43W4G5VeAMDX Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:00:20 +0000 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:58:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ Ruth Manning-Sanders: 'She was certain that it was every child’s birthright to visit a world of enchantment and occasional terrors' ]]> https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/ruth-manning-sanders-she-was-certain-that-it-was-every-childs-birthright-to-visit-a-world-of-enchantment-and-occasional-terrors-246289 uxVmrUfpStUcmaHYkE74Ex Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:30:44 +0000