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Cover of Country Life 29 July 2026 — The cover of Country Life July 29, 2026, featuring a plethora of the insects that roam Britain.

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Country Life July 29, 2026, celebrates the things insects do for us, discovers country houses with hiding places, talks to the Duchess of Beaufort and sees how jungle fever is taking over gardening.

Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside.

All the small things

We overlook the importance of insects at our peril, says Charles Harris, as he marvels at the fruit flies that share our genes and the moths that supply strands of silk

A room with a clue

Deborah Nicholls-Lee searches high and low for the concealed rooms and secret spaces that are an intriguing quirk of so many British country houses

Luxury

Facials, fragrance and bold and beautiful summer jewellery with Amie Elizabeth White, plus a few of the Duchess of Beaufort’s favourite things

Born to be wild

Charles Quest-Ritson visits East Lambrook Manor in Somerset and is heartened to find the home of Margery Fish’s ‘jungle gardening’ in good hands

Vicki Anstey’s favourite painting

The adventurer chooses a work showcasing human resilience

Country-house treasure

John Goodall surveys artworks by the Staithes Group — the first English Impressionists — at Brockfield Hall, North Yorkshire

Revival and renewal

In the second of two articles, John Goodall explores James Wyatt’s influence on the interiors at Curraghmore in Co Waterford

The legacy

Kate Green lauds Benjamin Britten’s lasting impact on Arts and culture in his beloved Suffolk

Winging it

Mark Cocker examines the folklore and infamy of the magpie

Where there’s a grill, there’s a way

John Lewis-Stempel reads the smoke signals as a barbecue fires up Neolithic nostalgia

Alders and betters

Alnus glutinosa is an ancient pioneer species with a key role to play on our riverbanks, as Vicky Liddell discovers

Interiors

Arabella Youens admires the colour and comfort added to a Jersey farmhouse and a splash of zest is best for Amelia Thorpe

Travel

Rosie Paterson enjoys an island paradise off France’s Côte d’Azur

Arts & antiques

Grégoire the grey toad brings a wealth of pleasure to Frederick Fischer, Lalique UK managing director, as he tells Carla Passino

A kind of magic

Multi-talented, multi-disciplinary artist Es Devlin shares the secret of her success with Corinne Julius

And much more

Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.