Masterpiece: Jack Watkins admires the comic absurdity of Evelyn Waugh’s undimmed satire on the world of journalism: Scoop .
Poetry in motion: ‘Delicately handled recollections’, ‘sincerity and mystery’ — Tim Relf congratulates the winner of the Country Life poetry competition.
Little England: From Suffolk to North Yorkshire, Cornwall to Derbyshire, villages tell our island story. Archaeologist Ben Robinson picks his top 10.
White magic: Swathes of snowdrops flood the Rothschilds’ Eythrope Park, Buckinghamshire, in uncounted numbers, marvels Mary Keen.
Virginia Chadwyck-Healey’s favourite painting: The stylist and fashion writer chooses a scene of summer.
To be a pilgrim: Fiona Reynolds finds solace in a walk from Tewkesbury Abbey to Gloucester Cathedral .
Polly wants an apple: Tropical ring-necked parakeets are very much at home here, but why, wonders Claire Jackson.
Loved back to life: A rare survivor, Fulbeck House, Lincolnshire, has been lovingly restored, finds Jeremy Musson.
Let’s hear it for mighty mutton: Tom Parker Bowles praises the maligned, yet magnificent meat.
Interiors: Professional standards in a family kitchen and trends for 2022.
The good stuff: Hetty Lintell on initialled jewellery.
The Queen’s lost library: Rufus Bird reveals the interiors created to house the books of Caroline, consort of George II.
The late blooming of a ‘saintly clergyman’: William Keble Martin’s life of wild-flower sketching bore rich literary fruit, reveals Matthew Dennison.
Wedding Guide 2022: Isabella Foulger on everything from venues to flowers and fizz.
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The Country Life guide to Somerset: What to do, where to stay and how to eatSomerset is rich in natural beauty and history, but it is its wealth of small-scale food and drink producers, farmers and makers that really set it apart from the competition. Find out how to make the most of it all with our indispensable guide.
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How to make a gloomy city garden into a haven of colour and natureTiffany Daneff discovers how to transform a typically dark London back garden into a light-filled green haven that is always in use. Photographs by Clive Nichols.
