Country Life's reviewers name the books that have most absorbed them this year, with topics ranging from grey partridges to ...

It's Christmas day. You've probably run out of things to talk about. Why not do this quiz to pass the time? Answers will be posted at 1:30pm tomorrow. So that was 2024 1) Which ITV television drama ...

Over the Christmas period we'll be featuring some of the best stories of the year from the Country Life website.

The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas. We’ve taken a selection from ...

We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much ...

With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...

Waking up to discover the garden transformed by a short, sharp hoar frost is a magical experience. Tiffany Daneff looks at ...

From the gardens of A-listers and crazed plant hunters to tips on compost, we covered it all in 2024. Charles Quest-Ritson admitted in April that he never fell for orchids the way he has for roses — ...

Variously described as ‘wearing a cloak of silver’ and looking like ‘a hoary old man’, Jack Frost has attracted many artistic depictions over the centuries — some more positive than others.

Ribboned with fat and gleaming with a clove-studded glaze,Tom Parker Bowles sings the praises of the succulent Christmas ham. Christmas just ain’t Christmas without the festive ham. Sure, there will ...

Kate Green meets Philip Hobbs and Johnson White, in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country the joy it is, to discover how racehorses are looked after even when everyone else is ...