It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than a conversation with the fabulous stand-up, actor, improviser and author Rachel Parris! Rachel's Austen credentials are acute. As well as being a founding member of the amazing Austen-inspired improv group Austentatious, alongside former YB guests Cariad Lloyd and Andrew Hunter Murray, her first novel, Introducing Mrs Collins, is a sequel, of sorts, to Pride and Prejudice. We talked to Rachel about Jane Austen (a lot), regency sex scenes, bookish palate cleansers and an adult version of the Jolly Postman. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up

Rachel Parris - Introducing Mrs Collins

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Monique Roffey - Mermaid of Black Conch

Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things

Ambrose Parry - The Way of all Flesh: A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Julie Owen Moylan - Elizabeth and Marilyn

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jackie Collins - Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Graydon Carter - When the Going Was Good

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Andrew O'Hagan - Caledonian Road

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Louise Candlish - Our House

Adele Parks - Just Between Us

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party

Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst - S

Janet and Allan Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman

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