Country Life September 13 2017
Cotswolds special: best booze, glorious Gloucestershire plus the Country Life shooting guide.


Country Life September 13 2017 is stunning Cotswolds special featuring the best booze, glorious Gloucestershire and the gorilla who came to tea, plus the Country Life shooting guide. Find out more:
ARCHITECTURE: A 1750s country house near Tetbury has been brilliantly extended, says Jeremy Musson
GARDENS: The reworking of the garden at Ampney House, Gloucestershire, into a vibrant modern space inspires Vanessa Berridge
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Rupert Uloth rediscovers this most charming of Cotswold counties
BOOZE: The Cotswolds has become a centre for world-class wines, spirits and lagers. Emma
GORILLA WHO CAME TO TEA: Katherine MacInnes recounts the extraordinary tale of the gorilla who attended a Gloucestershire school
SHOOTING: How to be a great guest, the best kit, dream drives and shoot characters
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WILDLIFE: David Profumo profiles the cranefly
PROPERTY: Penny Churchill finds captivating Cotswold properties for sale and Annunciata Elwes picks some of the most elegant town houses
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The tanner
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The collector and philanthropist chooses one of the Zurbaráns he saved for the North
COLUMNIST: Fiona Reynolds follows in the leafy footsteps of her heroine
MOTORING: Charles Rangeley-Wilson tests Toyota’s new Hilux pick-up
CAMPAIGN: Wool is back
INTERIORS: Arabella Youens finds out why London is a world leader in interior design
COOKING: Melanie Johnson picks cherries for a clafoutis
ART & ANTIQUES: Wolf Burchard reports on the National Trust’s mammoth project to catalogue its furniture
PERFORMING ARTS: Julian Lloyd Webber talks to Pippa Cuckson about the crisis in musical education
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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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