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NewsWhat you'll find inside Country Life's 2024 Christmas Double issue, the biggest in 128 years of the magazine's history
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Theatre, film & music
14 of the greatest movie posters in cinema
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News
Country Life's 20 favourite stories of 2024, from elephants and explorers to the country house that came with a free Harrier Jump Jet
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Food and Drink
The greatest pies of Christmas past, including 300lb whopper that included 20 rabbits, 15 woodcock, a curlew and 46 yellowhammers
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Property
A Victorian reservoir transformed into a sprawling underground home that's part Roman villa and part Hobbit house
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Gardens
Country Life's top 10 gardens articles of 2024
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Property
13 country homes for sale, starting from under £375,000, as seen in Country Life
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Expert Gardening Tips
Charles Quest-Ritson: Walnuts are one of the gardener's greatest pleasures — but you'll have to be ready for the squirrels
Property
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A fisherman's cottage in Port Isaac in which you can write the next Great American Novel
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Going up? The property market's top experts on what will happen to house prices in 2025
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Dawn Chorus: The Secret of GK Chesterton, the owl-saving hero who's breaking the internet, and our Quiz of the Day
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The interiors of this converted church in Oundle might be all the proof you need that there is a God
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The most-viewed house of 2024 is a completely ordinary three-bed semi... with a literally fantastical interior
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A former nunnery that's now a spectacular home, with statues, stained glass and magnificent gardens
Interiors
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Interiors
Knock down or rebuild? Kitchen island or cook's table? The 10 questions to ask when you're doing up a house
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Interiors
The key to a great bathroom? Make it feel more like your sitting room — even to the point of having an armchair next to the bath
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Interiors
'Other cultures celebrate the elderly. So why do we consign them to beige farms that smell of cabbage and wee?': Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on Changing Rooms, retirement living and growing old disgracefully
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The Country Life Podcast
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: Changing rooms, mixing leather and velvet, and the joy of growing old disgracefully
Nature
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Dawn Chorus: Nature's 'wholesale fightback' is an inspiration for us all to keep trying
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11 things to look out for on a Nature walk in winter
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The cheetah playing hide-and-seek who's a Far Side cartoon come to life
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Minette Batters: 'I don’t believe this Government set out to wipe out the family farm. Yet it will be the consequence'
Travel
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'Conflict, back-stabbing, vendettas, false promises and the taking of malicious glee in others’ misfortune': Why Risk is exactly what Christmas is all about
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La Fantaisie hotel review: A boutique hotel in the atmospheric Faubourg Montmartre area of Paris
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Eastern promise: Mandarin Oriental opens a second London hotel on Hanover Square
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The Country Life guide to North Cornwall: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
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The ultimate Canadian train journey
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Into the Woods: The cabins set amid the treetops above the city of Cork
Cars
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'The most beautiful car in the world' made both better, and worse, all at once
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Mushroom gin, Lego houses, and dull men and women, with James May
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Dacia Jogger: Perfection is many things, but most of all it's simplicity
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The original ULEZ-style enforcement? How the Victorians taxed all the coal coming in to London
Food & Drink
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Tom Parker Bowles: Forget turkey and pigs-in-blankets — the Christmas ham is the king of the yuletide feast
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The award-winning cook who makes 5,000 Christmas puddings a year, every single one of them by hand
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Are posh mince pies worth it? Four of the best on test, from Daylesford, The Newt and more
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A Brussels sprout recipe that sounds completely bizarre, but will make you glad you didn't wait until Christmas to start eating them
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Champagne with fish and chips, and what to drink at Christmas with Oscar Dodd of Fortnum & Mason
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How to feel like the most important person at an England rugby game
The Royal Family
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Queen Camilla says 'sad farewell' to her beloved Jack Russell, Beth
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Holyrood: Inside The King's official residence in Scotland, from throne room to the bed chamber of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Dawn Chorus: Watching telly with The Queen, the one-bedroom wreck that fetched £2 million and our Quiz of the Day
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You rang, your majesty? What it was like to be a servant in the Royal Household
