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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