Exclusive Preview Of What’s Inside The January/February 2025 Issue

Your first look at the January/February 2025 issue of Country & Town House – a preview of everything you need for the start of 2025 and beyond, on these shores and further afield.

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Preview: The Country & Town House January/February 2025

Dress: Zimmermann. Necklace: Pebble London. Earrings: Sam Ubhi

What’s Inside Country & Town House’s January/February 2025 Issue?

• C&TH’s annual Escape issue invites readers to dream far and wide, from frozen Svalbard to castaway islands scattered in South Polynesia. C&TH travel editor Francisca Kellet identifies the new travel rules for making our travels mean more; photographer Alistair Taylor-Young shares a pictorial adventure of his work with two NGOs battling to preserve Antartica; we discover the Spanish family breathing new life into heritage buildings in Menorca, reopening them as private homes and small hotels; in the UK, we tap into the new vogue for wild saunas and sleep in a treehouse above the fray in the New Forest; PLUS snowshoeing off the beaten track in Northern Sweden, plying the waters of Greenland in a new expedition ship and holiday ideas from Montana prairies to manta ray migrations in the Maldives
• C&TH fashion director Nicole Smallwood sweeps us off to Morocco in her Escape-themed toes-in-the-sand cover shoot on the country’s lesser known Mediterranean coastline
• Beloved British novelist Michael Morpugo talks to Lucy Cleland about Spring, his first adult non-fiction book for 40 years, in which he takes us by the hand into the wilds of Devon as he waits – like so many of us – for the first signs of the new season
• We ask what did Livia Firth do next? Following the closure of Eco-Age and a cancer diagnosis, the activist finds new zeal at an organic farm in Umbria, Italy
• Sir Richard Branson reopens his Atlas Mountains retreat, Kasbah Tamadot, after the devastating 2023 earthquake and shares a story of Berber resilience amidst the rubble
• Actress Sally Phillips – aka Shazza from Bridget Jones – talks to Lucinda Baring ahead of the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy on 14 February
• Meet Marianna Spring, whose reporting on the darkest tenets of social media for the BBC has resulted in vicious slurs and death threats. She tells Charlotte Metcalf why she’s taking on her trolls face to face
• We introduce our new men’s style editor Shane C. Kurup, who selects the best gear for ski season
• Our beauty pages include how to supercharge the liver, how to boost lymphatic drainage – a key player in our immunity and wellbeing – and the best multitasking skincare and make-up to streamline our beauty routines
• PLUS culture pages packed full of things to see, watch, read and listen, a peak inside an ultra-stylish Med-island home, what’s what in the food and restaurant scene, and so much more….Dive on in!

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Cover Shoot Credits

• Photographer: Chloe Mallett
• Fashion Director: Nicole Smallwood
• Model: Alice Stoner @ Storm Model Managment
• Hair & Make-up: Ruth Warrior @ Ray Brown using Sam McKnight & Sisley Paris
• Photographer’s Assistant: Joshua Bryant