India, May 1 -- Workhorse (2025). Vogue veteran Caroline Palmer's novel is the antidote to the goody-goodyness of Andrea Sachs. Her view: If you're not cutthroat, you won't make it in a fashion magazine. Her heroine Clo is cunning, selfish and ready to fight for her place at a table filled with privilege. And it feels within reach if she just happens to become friends with colleague and film royalty, Davis. Read if you hate nepo babies.

Techbitch (2015). Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza's novel follows Imogen Tate, who heads a top fashion magazine, and is up against Eve Morton, a former assistant who's now the magazine's web editor. Will paper trump pixels? Will good old journalism crumble before web statistics? If you've grown up staring at a p...