Hot Off The Press: Our Nov/Dec 2025 Issue Is Here

Welcome to our biggest issue of the year, filled with everything you need for festive giving and revelry alongside the wellbeing hacks to keep you sane (and glowing) amid the Christmas mayhem and features to make you pause and question. For as always at C&TH, it’s all about a life in balance.

What’s Inside C&TH‘s November/December 2025 Issue?

• For our cover shoot inspiration, C&TH fashion director Nicole Smallwood and photographer Matthew Shave dug into our favourite fairytales.
• Are you more castle-chic like Claudia Winkleman or nattily noir-ish like Wednesday; a Stanley Tucci or John Hamm? We bring you 12 pages of christmas gifts themed around this year’s cult television shows.
• Rob Hopkins, who stole the show at Groundswell, creates a picture of a future that turns doom and gloom on its head and gives us all something to fight for.
• Daniel Lismore reveals how he rebuilt after hitting rock bottom and finding himself homeless, and Anya Hindmarch shares lessons in the art of confidence.
• Fleur Britten meets the publicans behind The Pelican and The Bull at Charlbury, who are reviving both farms and boozers by bringing them into the heart of the community.
• Friends of C&TH from Clare Shanahan from The Women’s Prize for Fiction to John Sandoe’s Johnny de Falbe, Hugo Rifkind and Dylan Jones share their best reads of the year.
• We cherry pick the festive theatre to book now and the biggest films for Boxing Day and beyond.
• Ed Vaizey visits the V&A’s Marie Antoinette Style and asks if it’s time to rethink the much-maligned French queen.
• Kate Varah, chief executive of the National Theatre, tells Charlotte Metcalfe the arts are a Trojan horse – able to sneak in social change.
• Alice B-B falls under the hypnotist’s spell and unshackles her creativity.
• We bring you the best evergreen and new-season style picks from Tiffanie Darke, Sabina Savage, Juliet Herd and Shane C. Kurup.
• Our beauty and wellbeing pages include Nathalie Eleni’s top 10 products and treatments you need for Christmas glow, our C&TH nutritionist – Dr Federica Amati, also head nutritionist at Zoe – tells how to avoid festive pitfalls, and Olivia Falcon shares her tips for staying calm at Christmas.
• Tablescaping queens from Laura Jackson to Willow Crossley and Mrs Alice tell us how to create an original Christmas table, while we ask experts from Turner Pocock, Studio Vero, Rebecca Hughes and Guy Goodfellow what it takes to create the most inviting guest bedrooms ready for a festive influx.
• Our interiors pages showcase the most exquisite dolls’ houses, Carole Annett’s latest picks, and as Pearl Lowe moves back to London, she takes us inside 10 of her favourite city pads, from a 10-bedroom former monastery overlooking the Thames to a river boat on Regent’s Canal.
• Finally, fill your larder, fridge and cellar with our selection of Christmas treats and libations.

Plus…

We single out the English villages that go all out at Christmas – and the properties to buy there – from the Cotswolds to the Yorkshire Dales. And if you just want to escape it all, we bring your travel inspiration from carving tracks down a Turkish volcano in our annual 15-page ski special, to a deep dive into rural China by Luke Abrahams, fun times in balmy and hyper-colourful Palm Beach and a celebration of Cambodia, 50 years on from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge’s brutal regime – where our writer Stephanie Drax arrived at Shinta Mani Wild’s tented camp by zipwire… All in the name of journalism.

Shinta Mani Wild’s tented camp in a Cambodia

Subscribers receive their copies from Friday 7 November and the issue will be on newsstands from Wednesday 12 November.

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