Because She Can by Bridie Clark (Bantam, £6.99)

In The Devil Wears Prada you met the fashion magazine world’s boss from hell, and now, in Because She Can, you’ll meet the book world’s biggest ogre, Vivian Grant. A publishing maverick, Grant doesn’t mind what books she publishes as long as they top the bestseller lists — and she works her staff to the bone to get there. Claire jumps at the chance to scale the career ladder at Grant Books — until she finds out how extreme Vivian can be. This is a great moral tale for our work-obsessed times and intriguingly, Grant’s character is allegedly based on a real-life publishing tyrant, which adds a certain frisson to a great read.