As the weather cools and exciting new fruit and vegetables come into season, autumn is a great time to get back into some cooking. Need a bit of inspiration? Organic vegetable box delivery service Riverford is marking its 40th anniversary with a new recipe book, The Riverford Cookbook: Easy Evenings. ... The post 3 Cosy Autumn Recipes From Riverford’s New Cookbook appeared first on Country and Town House.

In today’s wellness culture, it’s easy to get overly obsessed with stats. (Did a run even happen if you didn’t track it on Strava?) Yet, ironically, this often leads to a disconnect between body and mind – all the focus on tracking and numbers can make us forget to observe ... The post Is Somatic Movement The Ultimate Antidote To Over-Optimised Wellness? appeared first on Country and Town House.

If you’ve been watching MobLand, you’ll know Alex Fine as Donny – the cool, quietly calculating American fixer sent across the Atlantic to do Kat McAllister’s dirty work. In series two, Donny steps out of the shadows and into the life of Jan Da Souza, wife of Tom Hardy’s Harry, ... The post Alex Fine On MobLand, Popping Tyres & Why You Should Always Find The Local Bingo Hall appeared first on Country and Town House.

Considering independent education? Find the best school for your child here. Otherwise, read on for the latest independent school news (October 2026). Tudor Hall Officially Becomes World Class Tudor Hall has become the first school in Oxfordshire to achieve a World Class accreditation, recognising its commitment to developing student skills in a ... The post Independent School News: October 2026, Week 1 appeared first on Country and Town House.

Should I worry that Anthony Scaramucci is quelling my fears about an imminent Russian attack? Is it odd that I put faith in a man who, having famously spent just 11 days as Donald Trump’s Director of Communications, is now a pundit on the outside? But I do – and ... The post Bougie Nights: Anthony Scaramucci Talks America, Wargames & Extravagant Tastes appeared first on Country and Town House.

For five series, Kiell Smith-Bynoe played one of the rare beating hearts in Ghosts. The somewhat gormless but loving husband of Charlotte Ritchie’s Alison, his character Mike Cooper is also housemate to a legion of ghosts only his wife can see and hear. Now he’s back for one final visit ... The post Kiell Smith-Bynoe On Saying Goodbye To Ghosts (Again), Starring In Wicker & His Improv Show appeared first on Country and Town House.

Dearest Gentle Reader, the ton is all a-flutter. Why? For there is news of a new Bridgerton spin-off. At last the time has come for us to turn our attention to the Bridgerton matriarch – in a new series chronicling the romance of a young Violet and Viscount Edmund Bridgerton. ... The post Bridgerton Announces New Spin-Off Centred Around Violet & Edmund – Here’s Everything We Know appeared first on Country and Town House.

A man prepares for his 55th birthday, but as he gets dressed he is confronted by fragments of memory. Now in its 10th year, The Nature of Forgetting is a powerful play that tackles the impact of neurological disorders. Guillaume Pigé is the artistic director of Theatre Re, an internationally ... The post Guillaume Pigé On The Nature Of Forgetting – A Play That Explores Dementia Through Mime appeared first on Country and Town House.

Since hanging up his boots as James Bond in 2021, Daniel Craig is expanding his repertoire – and not only when it comes to movies. As well as having more capacity to star in films outside of the Bond realm – including two more Knives Out movies, and Greta Gerwig’s ... The post Daniel Craig Is Opening A London Pub appeared first on Country and Town House.

Fashion Month may be over, but its most extravagant moments are still lingering in the imagination. And if all that fur, glamour and sheer Gucciness at Milan’s Fashion Week gave you déjà vu, you’re not alone – we may have Ridley Scott’s opulent biographical crime drama House of Gucci to ... The post The House Of Gucci House Is Up For Grabs – For €2.9m appeared first on Country and Town House.

Fancy a cocktail in the world’s best bar? You’ll have to hop on a flight: the winner of this year’s World’s Best Bars list is located in Hong Kong. However, three London bars secured spots in the top 50 for 2026, announced in a ceremony in Milan last night. World’s 50 ... The post 3 London Bars Named In World’s Top 50 List For 2026 appeared first on Country and Town House.

Ignoring variations in language and cuisine, some skiing holidays can feel totally cut off from the world at large. That can be restorative: a melting away of worries as you operate on an instinctual level of eating, skiing, sleeping, repeating. But a skiing holiday needn’t mean disappearing into unknowable mountains ... The post Winter In Austria: Where Culture Meets The Slopes appeared first on Country and Town House.

Holland Park has no shortage of handsome addresses, but few sit quite this close to the clouds. For this penthouse at Holland Park Gate, the family who call it home wanted a space that feels expansive when everyone gathers (and cosy when they don’t), with the city’s ever-changing light playing a ... The post Inside A Luxury Penthouse At Holland Park Gate With Golden Hour Views appeared first on Country and Town House.

British sprinter Amy Hunt might just be the perfect road trip partner. The 24-year-old shot to fame this summer when she hit quadruple gold at the European Games in Birmingham. And she might be the fastest woman in Europe, but as we set off on a journey across rural Wales, ... The post I Drove Across Wales In A Ferrari With Britain’s Fastest Woman appeared first on Country and Town House.

Nine years since the groundbreaking Blue Planet II aired, the BBC has released a trailer for the hotly anticipated third series, Blue Planet III. The new season was launched with a premiere in central London last night (7 October), with the screens of Piccadilly Circus transformed with a mesmerising ocean ... The post We Finally Have A First Look At Blue Planet III appeared first on Country and Town House.

There is a certain delight in leaving the modern world behind for an evening. Trading texts for ink blotched letters, overhead lighting for a dim glow of a single candle and a swift commute back home for a wander through vast dusky hills. While true time travel may still be ... The post 10 Of The Best Period Dramas To Stream Now On BBC iPlayer appeared first on Country and Town House.

October marks Black History Month, the annual celebration of the history, contributions and achievements of Black people in the UK. Every year, numerous events celebrating African and Caribbean cultures take place across the country. Here’s what you need to know about this important month. What Is Black History Month? Having originated in ... The post Who Started Black History Month In The UK? appeared first on Country and Town House.

Every October, Black History Month recognises the achievements, talent and impact of the African diaspora, remembering important people and events in our nation’s Black history. Originating in the US in 1926, the month-long celebration has been observed here in the UK every year since 1987 – although in October as ... The post Going Out: 8 Ways To Celebrate Black History Month In London 2026 appeared first on Country and Town House.

Laura Jackson wears a lot of hats. A broadcaster by trade, she’s also the founder of interiors destination Glassette and skincare brand ROCCO, and her latest venture sees her turn her hand to jewellery: Celestial Links, a collection designed with British jeweller Astley Clarke. It’s no surprise, then, that Laura Jackson’s style is ... The post Laura Jackson On Her Personal Style Rules appeared first on Country and Town House.

With just three months left of 2026, many of us are beginning to look ahead to our 2027 adventures – so what’s hot in the world of travel? Here we delve into reports and tap up the experts to uncover some of the travel trends set to take off in ... The post Mystic Adventures, Sweat-Jetting & Anti-Optimised Holidays: 7 Travel Trends Set To Take Over 2027 appeared first on Country and Town House.

Set at the meeting point of the Wye and Monnow rivers and surrounded by the wooded folds of the Wye Valley National Landscape, Monmouth in Wales is a place that knows precisely how to dazzle. Georgian façades, medieval fragments and higgledy-piggledy lanes hint at Roman and Norman beginnings, while today ... The post How To Spend A Weekend In Monmouth, Wales appeared first on Country and Town House.

A stone’s throw from Victoria station, on the boundary between Belgravia and Westminster, The Goring has been a glamorous part of London life since Otto Goring first opened its doors back in 1910. More than a century later, it remains London’s only five-star luxury hotel that’s still owned and run ... The post A Very British Stay At The Goring appeared first on Country and Town House.

The last time Hamad Butt’s Familiars went on show at Tate Britain, it didn’t go as planned. It was 1995, the work’s first institutional outing, and the installation – glass vessels filled with toxic iodine, bromine and chlorine – broke. The whole gallery had to be evacuated. Thirty-one years later, it’s ... The post Toxic Gas, Raves & Razor Blades: Inside Tate Britain’s The 90s: Art And Fashion appeared first on Country and Town House.

Patrick Grant launched Community Clothing in 2016 with a defined and bold mission: to make exceptional-quality, affordable clothes and to create skilled jobs where they were needed most. After stepping in to save historic Blackburn manufacturer Cookson & Clegg from closure, he saw first-hand the need for a new model ... The post Patrick Grant On 10 Years Of Community Clothing: ‘Manufacturing Jobs Are Good Jobs’ appeared first on Country and Town House.

If next year’s long range weather forecast is anything to go by, then we need to start preparing our gardens for even hotter and drier conditions. One very effective way of doing this is to start sowing hardy annual seeds outside. These are seeds which can tolerate cold weather and ... The post These Are The Seeds To Sow In October & How To Plant Them appeared first on Country and Town House.

A beloved staple of British television, The Great British Bake Off has cultivated a hearty fanbase since its 2010 debut. But between the baking highs and lows, there’s a small army of people behind the curtain (tent flap?) literally and figuratively keeping the ovens running. From Technical Challenge trial runs ... The post 12 Secrets From The Bake Off Tent appeared first on Country and Town House.

Dolly Parton, we will always love you. This year, the world bid a final farewell to the peroxide blonde starlet – who passed away on 25 August 2026, at the age of 80. An all-American national treasure and music legend, Dolly Parton is best-known for her catchy country tunes and her ... The post Dolly Parton’s Hollywood Hill Home Hits The Market For $7.95m appeared first on Country and Town House.

She’s far from the only person to have spent her summer on a yacht, but Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark (though she prefers to be known as just Olympia) may well lay claim to having had the most fun.When we speak, she’s sailing on the Aegean Sea, in the ... The post ‘I Love To Prove I Am Not What You Think I Am’: Princess Olympia Of Greece On Her Lifelong Love Of Tiffany & Co. appeared first on Country and Town House.

Cruise ships are difficult things to love discreetly, arriving with an ostentatious amount of baggage: buffets, lanyards, organised fun and consistent tannoy announcements. Explora Journeys, the luxury arm of the MSC Group, prefers the term ‘ocean travel’, a distinction you can only begin to understand on board. Life on board the ... The post On Board Explora III, The Luxury Ship Doing Cruising Differently appeared first on Country and Town House.

Car people are notoriously early risers. Long before the rest of the world has even considered hitting the snooze button on a sunny October morning, a steady stream of spectacular machinery is already humming its way through Oxfordshire.Their destination is Bicester Motion Scramble – a beautifully relaxed celebration of automotive ... The post Bicester Scramble: Where Multi-Million-Pound Bugattis Rub Shoulders With Humble Austin Allegros appeared first on Country and Town House.

You’ve no doubt seen the term Mercury retrograde flying about on social media, a time often associated with misfires, misunderstandings, glitches and general chaos. But Mercury isn’t the only planet which goes into retrograde: all of them do so (minus the sun and the moon). And while Mercury retrograde is ... The post Venus Is In Retrograde – But What Does That Mean For Your Star Sign? appeared first on Country and Town House.

Grown weary of SUVs that handle like a wet sponge? The Polestar 5 is a four-door, luxury grand tourer aimed at motorists who still believe that driving should be an event rather than a chore. Aimed squarely at the class-leading Porsche Taycan and Audi e-tron GT, Polestar’s latest is a svelte, ... The post Polestar 5 Review: The New £100,000 Grand Tourer Is Simply Electrifying appeared first on Country and Town House.

Taylor Swift, Sienna Miller and Florence Pugh are all fans. Her thrice-annual limited coat drops typically sell out in days. So why doesn’t she simply make more? Ahead of her Winter Drop 1 collection, the London designer tells us why she remains a firm believer in slow fashion. Founded by Charlotte ... The post We Interview Queen Of Coats Charlotte Simone appeared first on Country and Town House.

Few houses have been followed quite as closely as this early 19th-century house. Tucked into a hillside above the tiny Dorset village of Littlebredy, the Parsonage has been home to interior designer Ben Pentreath and his husband, gardener Charlie McCormick, for more than a decade. Now, as the couple begin ... The post Inside Ben Pentreath & Charlie McCormick’s Dorset Parsonage appeared first on Country and Town House.

Legal drama fans, ’tis the season for you. From Sky’s new buzzy divorce battle WAR to BBC’s similarly spicy divorce drama The Split Up, there’s no shortage of bickering barristers gracing our screens. But where these shows follow city-slicking solicitors handling hefty divorce cases, this latest legal drama from Channel ... The post Everything We Know About Channel 4’s New Legal Crime Drama Pierre appeared first on Country and Town House.

Crunching over leaves in thick-soled boots, warm oranges and reds filling the trees, layered clothes and winter coats re-entering your wardrobe as that familiar chill appears in the air: autumn is sublime season. Looking for the best things to do and places to visit in the UK this season? Look ... The post The UK’s Loveliest Autumnal Spots appeared first on Country and Town House.

In her Netflix documentary, Meghan Markle showed us some of the dishes she loves to cook at home, from focaccia to skillet spaghetti. But where does she like to dine out? We’ve done some digging to find out the royal’s favourite restaurants, both in her hometown of California and in ... The post What Are Meghan Markle’s Favourite Restaurants? appeared first on Country and Town House.

The days are shorter, the nights are longer, and the cold is creeping in. It can only mean one thing: autumn has arrived, bringing a boat-load of brand new telly. And the star of the season? The Celebrity Traitors, of course. Since landing on the BBC with the civilian rendition ... The post 11 Secrets From The Traitors Castle appeared first on Country and Town House.

An apocryphal tale once circulated in Catholic public schools about a headmaster’s conference. The headmaster of Eton proclaims: ‘We educate our boys for life.’ A second headmaster, shrouded in capacious black robes, rises. ‘At our school,’ he announces, ‘we prepare our boys for death.’ That headmaster was a Benedictine monk, ... The post Why Are Non-Religious Parents Sending Their Children To Catholic School? appeared first on Country and Town House.

When a new season arrives we often think about switching up our skincare routines, but what about our wellness rituals? As the weather cools and the nights get darker, our bodies and minds need different things to keep us feeling good – and autumn always has that back-to-school feel, making ... The post Wellness Rituals To Adopt This Autumn, According To The Experts appeared first on Country and Town House.

How does your old school look in your memory? The picture you remember might be one of white walls, fuzzy navy carpet, copy-and-paste desks and – if you’re lucky – a modern-ish extension for the sixth formers. Or maybe you were lucky enough to attend a school with truly inspiring ... The post Class In A Castle? These Are The Most Beautiful Schools In The World appeared first on Country and Town House.

C&TH meets the master of bespoke jewellery, Sam Stirrat, who founded Blackacre London in 2017. Interview: Sam Stirrat, Founder of Blackacre London How did you first fall in love with jewellery? As a child, I was just fascinated by rocks and gems – their intriguing colours, patterns and textures. I taught myself ... The post Rock Star: Meet Sam Stirrat, The Founder of Blackacre London appeared first on Country and Town House.

Earlier this summer, entrepreneur Stephen Bartlett sparked fury after claiming two glasses of wine ruined three days of his life. Everyone from Greg James to Fearne Cotton and Laura Jackson weighed in, all with a similar stance: that while monitoring our health of course has merit, the obsessive tracking of ... The post Over-Optimisation Is Over – And Joyful Rituals Are In appeared first on Country and Town House.

If you know Annabel Scholey, chances are it’s as one of television’s powerhouse women – Contessina de’ Medici in Medici, divorce lawyer Nina Defoe in The Split or, most recently, scandal-hungry tabloid journalist Beattie Johnson in Disney+’s Rivals. Now, the Wakefield-born actress is trading big hair for a warrant card ... The post Annabel Scholey On ITV’s Winter, Rivals Series 2 Part 2 & Life In The Wiltshire Countryside appeared first on Country and Town House.

East of Eden is embedded in California’s Salinas Valley. It is where the novel’s author, John Steinbeck, grew up, and where many of his most famous novels – The Pastures of Heaven, The Red Pony, and that secondary school classic, Of Mice And Men – are set. It may seem strange, ... The post Where Was Netflix’s East Of Eden Filmed? & Can You Visit? appeared first on Country and Town House.

The great bake off is under way as Gothenburg prepares to celebrate Cinnamon Bun Day on 4 October. Jeremy Taylor and Jessica Talbot-Ponsonby sample Sweden’s go-to sticky treat – with a Volvo V60 estate on hand for the haul. Car Review: Volvo V60 Jeremy: How many cinnamon buns can you fit in ... The post Volvo V60 Review: A Cinnamon Bun Run To Gothenburg appeared first on Country and Town House.

Blink and you’ll miss it – October is already here. And with a new season comes a fresh wish list. Check out our October roundup of chic fashion buys, lust-worthy accessories and chic home decor in our daily luxury list edit. Last Month’s Luxury Finds The Luxury List: October 2026 Can’t wait for you ... The post The Luxury List: October 2026 appeared first on Country and Town House.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir does not look very happy. In the self-portrait that greets visitors to Renoir and Love, opening this weekend at the National Gallery, he is dark-eyed, haggard and almost swallowed by the murky brown background. Painted around 1875, it is an unexpectedly sombre introduction to an artist now synonymous ... The post Beyond The Dappled Light: Renoir & Love At The National Gallery appeared first on Country and Town House.

A hotel is only as good as its staff. You can spend £42m giving a hotel an entirely new identity, but if the staff aren’t top-notch, a lick of paint won’t cover it. But at the former Corus Hotel at Lancaster Gate, the Goddard Littlefair-led interiors overhaul is overshadowed by ... The post Review: Hyde & Seek, Lancaster Gate’s £42m New Hotel appeared first on Country and Town House.

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