Country Life November 29 2017 is our stunning Christmas special featuring our annual advent calendar, present ideas for everyone, the best canapés and how to compose a carol. Find out more here:
GIFT GUIDE: Victoria Marston and Rosie Paterson find present ideas for indoors and outdoors, ladies, gentlemen and smalls
STILTON: Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a pungent Stilton. Nick Hammond finds out more about this very British cheese
CANAPÉ COMPETITION: We reveal the results of the Country Life and Plain English contest to find the best party food in London, plus essential canapé etiquette
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: Trombone maker
INTERVIEW: Simon Berry, scion of the wine merchant dynasty, talks to Harry Eyres about an ancient tradition and what he’s going to do next
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The designer and author Stephen Bayley chooses an erotic 19th-century work he discovered during his student days in Liverpool
GARDENS: Jacky Hobbs visits Highfield Hollies in Hampshire, where hundreds of sculpted trees have been trained over 25 years
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ARCHITECTURE: Cesky Krumlov Castle in the Czech Republic was extravagantly remodelled in the 18th century. John Goodall pays a visit
LUXURY: Hetty Chidwick goes backstage at Favourbrook and finds out what essentials bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford can’t live without
INTERIORS: Amelia Thorpe finds out how to design a wine cellar
MOTORING: Charles Rangeley-Wilson test drives the Volkswagen Amarok, the poshest of pick-ups
WILDLIFE: Ian Morton admires the much-reviled amphibian – the toad
COOKING: Melanie Johnson finds surprising ways to use hazelnuts
CHRISTMAS CAROLLING: How do you introduce new Christmas carols? John Goodall gets a tune a day
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Small engines, big batteries: The quiet revolution of car designMore and more cars on the road are electric, and some unusual shapes and sizes glide past silently. But what does it all mean for design?
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14 ways to keep your dogs cool in the heat, by A-list dog trainer Ben RandallDogs can't regulate their body temperatures as well as humans can, so at this time of year they need your help keeping cool, whether you're on the road, out and about or leaving them with someone else while you go away.
