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A night at the ballet under the stars plus champagne, dinner, wine and B&B for just £145
Country Life readers can take advantage of a wonderful offer to go the Covent Garden Dance Company's Hatch House ballet in July.
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Hamlet at Glyndebourne: 'I felt as I was experiencing the play with fresh eyes and ears'
Michael Billington has seen over 50 productions of Hamlet, and came to this operatic reimagining with some trepidation. But he left feeling as if he'd experienced the play with new eyes and ears.
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'Ballet under the Stars' at Hatch House to feature Galeazzi and Lacarra
The former Royal Ballet principal Mara Galeazzi is one of the greats dancing with the Covent Garden Dance Company at Hatch House's open-air ballet in July.
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A promising leap from Star Wars to the London stage, but what next for John Boyega?
John Boyega is world famous among cinema-goers thanks to his starring role in the latest Star Wars films. Michael Billington caught him on stage – and was impressed at how he has handled the transition.
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Did Mary Shelley really write Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: is it really Mary Shelley who deserves the credit?
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The ill-fated life of Henry IX, the king that Britain never had
James VI's eldest son was groomed for the English throne from boyhood. He never made it that far.
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Stiff Upper Lip review: A book that asks 'powerful questions that parents can't ignore'
James Fergusson examines a passionate polemic against boarding school which raises serious questions.
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Tara Fitzgerald on fleas, miners and and Game of Thrones fanmail
The actress spoke to Country Life about how her perspective has changed as she prepares to enter her fifties.
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Five of the best Liberty prints, from over 140 years of extraordinary history
Vibrant, beautiful and, above all, instantly recognisable, Liberty prints have managed to stay in fashion for more than a century.
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The Joy of Sets: How Netflix and Amazon transformed television as an artform
TV shows like House of Cards, Game of Thrones and various others have transformed the way we think about television.
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Seven fascinating things we just learned about the Census
Ysenda Maxtone Graham is riveted by the facts and figures revealed in this engaging history of the Census.
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The Mary Rose museum review: Prepare to be moved and impressed
Huon Mallalieu re-visits the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth for the first time since its refurbishment – and suggests we all do the same.
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Border by Kapka Kassabova: 'a moving study of the tragic borderland between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey'
Transcending boundaries.
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The ultimate hotel for the polo-mad? Coworth Park, Berkshire
Hetty Chidwick explores a polo enthusiast's dream hotel in Berkshire - one which was the setting for an elegant recent Frontispiece shoot in Country Life.
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Molly Keane: A Life by Sally Phipps: ‘As much like a novel as possible’
Caroline Jackson enjoys a portrait of the writer who deftly evoked the vanishing world of the Irish Ascendancy country house.
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Book of the week: Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
Dan Cruickshank’s history of Spitalfields also contains a warning about its future, discovers Michael Murray-Fennell.
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Richard E. Grant: 'Not a day goes by without somone quoting Withnail & I at me'
Emma Hughes talks to the actor about Withnail & I, singing for his supper – and sniffing trees.
