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Toby Keel

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Digital Editor at Country Life

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  • White sand beaches, smuggler's coves, teeming wildlife and a ruined castle in a Scottish island that's on the market for the first time in almost a century

    1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel

    Buying a property is often a battle between head and heart: do you go for a sensible, practical place to live, or a dramatic and beautiful property that sets your heart aflutter every time you come home? For our money — and most likely yours, too, if you're reading this story — the pull of the romantic will always win. And property doesn't get any more romantic than the utterly gorgeous Shuna Island, which is currently for sale via Sotheby's International Realty for £5.5 million.

  • Steve Backshall on sharks, quicksand, and getting his fingertips eaten by piranhas

    1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel |James Fisher

    The adventurer, broadcaster, scientist and writer Steve Backshall has been a fixture on TV screens in Britain for nearly three decades — and we're absolutely thrilled that he joined James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast. Steve talks through some of the highlights of his amazing career, from coming face-to-face with tigers and great white sharks to discovering ancient ruins while diving in flooded cave systems.

  • 17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country Life

    1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel

    Surrey — £6,500,000Country Life with a location well within the M25 can be found, as seen in this home set on one of the swishest roads in Esher. Beautiful inside and out, and with two acres of gardens, it's the sort of place where gnarled beams, stained glass, modern art and designer kitchen seem to work together perfectly. For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.

  • The £600 artwork that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting is set to sell for 500 times what it made at auction just one year ago

    2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel

    202 years ago, at the Royal Academy's summer exhibition, an oil painting was exhibited by a precocious young artist. His name? Joseph Mallord William Turner. 'The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol' — which depicts a popular hot spring and spa house beside a turbulent seascape, beneath a dramatic evening sky — had been painted by the 17-year-old Turner, and became the artist's first oil painting to go on public display.

  • Magnificent mansions across the Home Counties, from £3 million to £14 million, as seen in Country Life

    2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel

    Oxfordshire — £3.45 millionIn a village not far from Chipping Norton, this five-bedroom home sits in an utterly charming setting of fields, trees, streams and pretty wooden bridges. It's a former rectory built in the Gothic Revival style, and it's for sale for the first time in nearly four decades. For sale with Knight Frank. See more pictures and details for this property.

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