Welcome To The Nov/Dec 2024 Issue, Starring Maria Bakalova As Ivana Trump

By Lucinda Baring

3 weeks ago

Lifting the lid on the Nov/Dec 2024 issue


The Nov/Dec issue of Country & Town House is packed full of everything you need for this festive season, and introduces our inaugural Future Icons Power People.

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What’s Inside The Country & Town House Nov/Dec 2024 Issue?

Maria Bakalova wears a yellow dress

  • Cover star Maria Bakalova talks to Amel Mukhtar about her role playing Ivana Trump in The Apprentice, the controversial film about President Trump’s early years – just as the US heads to the polls
  • Our inaugural Future Icons Power People acknowledges 50 names who are helping to make our planet a cooler, fairer, happier place
  • Lisa Grainger meets world-leading conservationist Dame Jade Goodall, who aged 90 shows no signs of slowing down
  • Activist Sarah de Lagarde talks to Charlotte Metcalf about the moment she fell onto the tracks at London’s High Barnet tube station – and lost two limbs to passing trains – and how she is using her accident as a force for good
  • Clare Naylor – screenwriter on the new riotously funny Disney+ adaptation of Rivals – takes us behind the scenes with Dame Jilly Cooper
  • Discover the hot things to see, watch and read with our culture calendar, PLUS the best new books to buy this Christmas. Our culture pages also include rebellious British artist Philip Colbert, novelist Tessa Hadley, and rising star Aoife Hinds ahead of her role in the upcoming Dune: Prophecy
  • Nadja Swarovski-Adams unpacks her winter style and we round up the best fashion and jewellery for women and men this party season
  • Longing to escape? Meet the man on Mustique who has one of the most enviable jobs in the world; we island-hop in French Polynesia; Francisca Kellett encourages us to ditch the bucket list and seek paths less-explored; and C&TH’s first golf special offers a guide on how to dress (leave the diamond jumpers in the 1970s), where to invest (the new resorts in Greece, Turkey and the Caribbean), and courses with benefits for golf widows and widowers
  • Our annual ski guide offers insights on where to go, what to wear and increased sustainability on the slopes
  • Our Health & Wellbeing pages bring the latest in at-home beauty tech; skincare’s new superhero product NAD+; a trip to the Bamford Wellbeing Spa to rebalance during the hectic Christmas season; and tips on how to optimise your fertility
  • Plus the latest food, interiors and property, including the most lavish London homes on the market, and all our regular columns, from Alice B-B to Ed Vaizey, who reviews the new Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael exhibition at The Royal Academy
  • And finally… Get ahead for Christmas with 12 pages packed with fabulous gift ideas

Cover Shoot Credits

  • Photographer: Matthew Shave
  • Fashion Director: Nicole Smallwood
  • Make-up: Lan Nguyen-Grealis @ Eighteen Management using Ilia Beauty
  • Hair: Davide Barbieri @ Aframe agency
  • Nails: Christie Huseyin @ Eighteen Management
  • Fashion assistant: Lacie Gittins
  • Photographer’s assistants: Alicia Colarusso and Benji Meredith Hardy