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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It's the final episode of our Beach Reads series and we're finishing style... and snot. As this week Daisy has selected a collection of books designed to have you blubbing in your deckchair and drying your tears with a towel. These are titles with a passionate edge, a tragic element or just a feeling of sheer joy that will have you reaching for your hankie as fellow beachgoers worry about your emotional state. 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

Jack London - Call of the Wild

Emily Henry - Beach Read

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

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We're turning up the heat for this week's selection of beach reads! Daisy has selected some holiday books with a distinct side of raunch. These are titles to make you blush, gasp and get even hotter under the collar (if your swimsuit happens to have a collar). There are books with an erotic edge, and some that are flat out filth. But which one has a character that makes 'Christian Grey look like Dougal from Father Ted'? You'll have to listen to find out. 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

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Tom Bissell and Greg Sestero - The Disaster Artist

Susi Wyss - Guess Who is the Happiest Girl in Town

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

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