Whisky is one of the world’s most revered spirits, with connoisseurs spending a great deal of money and time on the appreciation of rare expressions and limited edition bottles. In addition, many whisky connoisseurs travel direct to the source ...

From Steve Powers (Espo) in New York to Kid Zoom in Australia, taking in Banksy’s London, Paris as transfigured by Honet and OX, and the gargantuan murals of the Brazilian twins ‘Os Gêmeos’, this geographical survey of urban a...

In the spring of 1903, Country Life’s first staff photographer, Charles Latham, set off from London’s Victoria station with his large-format camera and several boxes of fragile glass negatives bound for Rome. He spent the months that followed photogr...

Diana was the world's most photographed woman in the 1980s and 90s. Her every outfit was scrutinized, criticised, admired and endlessly copied, her every fashion choice enormously influential. But it was only towards the end of her life that she foun...

For over a century, Country Life has been an influential force in the world of garden design, chiefly as a result of its weekly articles on country houses and gardens illustrated with specially commissioned photography. The magazine’s unrivalled arch...

Illustrations: 100 colour & 100 b&w images For over 100 years,  Country Life  magazine has been recording the country houses of the British Isles and Europe. From the start, its weekly articles on the subject were illustrated with specially commissi...

A collection of photographs from the archives of the magazine Country Life, which form a remarkable and evocative record of houses as they were in a past that now seems almost impossibly remote - the era of the great political hostesses in their Park...

Many of London’s historic houses and even greater numbers of domestic interiors have been lost to us since 1939, as a result of political and social changes, war and a tradition of continual rebuilding. But, thanks to the unique photographic archive ...

Over the course of the twentieth century, Country Life’s influential weekly articles on gardens have resulted in an unrivalled archive of gardening history, which forms the basis for this book. The ephemeral nature of gardens means that they can very...

Tattooing - once thought of as barbaric and the preserve of sailors - is now mainstream. Tattoos are worn today not only by celebrities and sports stars but also an increasing number of people in the street. Be it a Celtic armband, a delicate ankle b...

The Arts and Crafts Country House is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated survey of some of Britain’s most important houses. The Arts and Crafts Movement produced some of our country’s greatest works of design, architecture and decorative art...

Over a million houses were built in Britain during the Edwardian period and another four million in the years between the two World Wars; most of these are still in use as homes today. This book explains to current owners of such houses why and by wh...

Over 150 superb photographs from the Country Life archive are selected especially here to highlight 25 major houses and their architects in a stunning and astoundingly thorough display. In The Classical Country House architectural historian David Wa...

An English Manor House represents an architectural ideal. For generations it has embodied civilised taste. These houses have formed a core part of "Country Life" features over the decades and this book contains fantastic photography of them. Here are...

The Regency Country House is the twelfth in what The Sunday Telegraph called ‘the magisterial Aurum Press series based on beautiful… photographs from the archives of Country Life’. As critics recognised on publication of the original hardback edition...