What to expect in your February issue of Cotswold Life…

• Cotswold boy KENTON COOL on why you never ‘conquer’ Everest

• DAVID PEARSON: The award-winning filmmaker shares his Cotswold life

• Stand-up comedian and journalist VIV GROSKOP looks forward to BATH LITERATURE FESTIVAL

• CIRENCESTER braces itself for an invasion of five-foot hares

• BANBURY: Our photographer Carl Hewlett meets the traders of this historic town

• INTERIORS: A glimpse behind the door of a 17th-century thatched cottage in the shadow of Uffington’s White Horse

• GARDENS: How careful planning at Bromesberrow Place has paid off

• FASHION: Echoes of Dr Zhivago and The Prisoner on this month’s shoot

• BOOKS: A tale of comic brilliance, with an unexpected romantic lead

• GOURMET LIFE: No 131 in Cheltenham, Tom Parker Bowles’ Valentine’s feast, Luke’s in Broadway and Pub Dog

• HEALTH: Losing weight using the power of the mind

PLUS our regular columnists Adam Henson, Sue Limb, Sir Roddy Llewellyn, Adam Edwards, Clare Mackintosh and Mark Cummings