Country Life January 24 2018 reveals everything there is to know about the finch family; celebrates 200 years of the Old Vic; plus the lynx conundrum; and David Haig on his new play. Find out more here:
GARDENS: La Mortella, on the Bay of Naples, is a product of exuberant experimentation.
ARCHITECTURE: Stockton House in Wiltshire looks every inch the classic Tudor house, but bristles with modern technology.
LYNXES: The lynx looks as if it may be reintroduced to Britain, but there are major consequences to consider as Joe Gibbs reports.
FINCHES: David Tomlinson's guide to these characterful birds that proliferate around the country.
CARS: Charles Rangely-Wilson tries BMW's big new estate, the 5-Series Touring.
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THEATRE: The Old Vic celebrates its 200th birthday. Michael Billington looks back at its contribution.
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: In praise of Pashley bicycles.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Andrew Graham-Dixon picks a classic van Dyck.
TRAVEL: A weekend in Ghent, and a break in Jamaica at a place where Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller honeymooned.
INTERIORS: An antique dealer's drawing room uncovered.
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'The whole house shook. Everything was white. For four months, it felt as if we were on Mars': The story behind one of Hampshire's most breathtaking gardensWhen Kim Wilkie sculpted a tiered grass amphitheatre behind this 17th-century house, the garden finally settled into place, as Non Morris discovers.
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
