Jo Piazza

An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app. When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age. From the Hardcover edition.

Techbitch is the wickedly witty and acutely observed novel from Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza about how to keep up in a tech-obsessed world. Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, is a legend in the fashion world. But when she returns from a sabbatical to find her twenty-six-year-old former assistant, Eve Morton, behind her desk, she realises times are changing. Armed with a business degree, naked ambition and an iPhone, Eve announces she has been brought in to turn Imogen's beloved magazine into an app. With herself at the helm. In this terrifying new world, Imogen is almost invisible. In place of her team of dedicated staff is a constantly evolving line of twenty-something bloggers at their desks day and night ('Only losers need sleep!'), amateur snaps instead of elegant photo shoots, and a URL address in place of Imogen's glossy pages. But Imogen isn't ready to give up her hard-earned career without a fight. Where Eve has Twitter followers, Imogen has experience, talent and real relationships, and she's prepared to fight for the fashion world she knows and loves. Even if it means going to war with a ruthless Techbitch...

PRO MILOVNÍKY BESTSELLERU ĎÁBEL NOSÍ PRADU Neuvěřitelně stylový a zlomyslně zábavný příběh o světě módy, módních časopisech digitálního věku, souboji generací, selfíčkách, Twitteru a Instagramu Imogen Tateová, šéfredaktorka prestižního magazínu Glosy, se po půlroční nemoci vrací do práce. Jaké je ale její překvapení, když za svým stolem spatří pohodlně se rozvalovat svou někdejší asistentku Evu, jak právě pořizuje selfie svých extravagantně nalakovaných nehtů. A pak už překvapení neberou konce. „Staromódní“ papírový časopis se během její nepřítomnosti změnil v internetový magazín. Ze čtyřicátnice Imogen je náhle dinosaurus a „Šedý vlas“, jak se sžíravou ironií tituluje své starší spolupracovníky nemilosrdné supermoderní mládí. Imogen najednou nerozumí ničemu. Neví, co si počít se všemi těmi tweety, e-shopy, aplikacemi a selfíčky. Připadá si, jako by spadla do jiného světa, kde všichni mluví jazykem, kterému nerozumí. A z uznávané šéfredaktorky se ze dne na den stává vysmívaný outsider. Co na tom, že si tyká se světovými návrháři a supermodelkami, když neumí vložit příspěvek na Instagram a slovo hashtag jí připadá jako mimozemská šifra? Ambiciózní, zlomyslná Eva je odhodlaná ukázat téhle vykopávce, že už nemá v módní branži co dělat. A rozhodně si nepočíná v rukavičkách. Imogen má jen dvě možnosti. Sebrat si své muzeální zápisníky a všechno vzdát, nebo začít bojovat.

Not every story is black and white. Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is black and Jen is white. And then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager and everything changes in an instant. This one act could destroy more than just Riley and Jen's friendship. As their community takes sides, so must Jen and Riley, and for the first time in their lives the lifelong friends find themselves on opposing sides. But can anyone win a fight like this? We Are Not Like Them is about friendship and love. It's about prejudice and betrayal. It's about standing up for what you believe in, no matter the cost