Country Life October 22 2014
Country Life October 22 2014 wages war on mice, admires Oxford's newest landmark and revisits recipes from the 1930s.


This week in Country Life we meet the dog dynasties and discover why some families are loyal to only one breed, we admire a Venetian garden, we learn to cook with globe artichokes and we go hunting with the fell packs of the Lake District.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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