’This is essential’ Margaret Atwood on Twitter ‘She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this’ Philip Pullman ’Vibrates with outrage’ The Times

‘Highly readable and vibrates with outrage’ The Times, Hannah Lucinda Smith ‘A brilliant analysis of how democracy can be starved to death. It's one of the most important books anyone could read at the moment, when public institutions are slowly being corrupted wherever we look’ Philip Pullman ‘Temelkuran, a treasure of a novelist, turns a nonfiction eye to the burning topic of today: populism.  Vivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, How To Lose A Country is essential reading for everyone on planet Earth’Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less ‘May be the most important political book you read in 2019 … Her tone is brave, deeply personal, witty, honest and melancholic in its delivery, with the writer’s style leaning more toward emotional humanism than cold-blooded rational political science’ The Globe and Mail ‘This is a keenly observed and passionately written book. Read it or be prepared to lose your country’Rabih Alameddine  'The opponents of authoritarian populist and nationalist regimes have often failed to foresee or effectively resist their rise until it was too late. This highly informed and original book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the forces that are convulsing our world' Patrick Cockburn, author of Rise of the Islamic State ‘Ece Temelkuran is a passionate authentic voice whose fearless stand against authoritarian incursion is inspiring. She writes with an urgent conviction that has never been more important than now’ Tina Brown  ‘An important, current and, most importantly, very readable book about the populist playbook and how it threatens to engulf us all’ Rick O’Shea 'A stunning, sane and intimate chronicle of a world gone nuts. An urgent whisper in our ears about our modern dictators and their collaborators. Ece has looked them in the eye, and is now telling us we need talk' Mohammed Hanif

• ESTABLISHED PLATFORM: Ece has already established herself as a respected political commentator. In the past few years she has been profiled in n+1, and written for the Guardian, the New York Times, the New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She has also built her own platform, garnering almost 3 million Twitter followers. • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: Ece is an international publishing powerhouse. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published into more than ten languages. Her most recent novel Women Who Blow on Knots, sold more than 120,000 copies in Turkey, and won the Edinburgh International Festival’s First Book Award. • A PRESSING ISSUE: Depressingly, this book only seems to get more timely as the months role on. It’s perfect for readers of books like Talking to my Daughter About the Economy by Yannis Varoufakis (40K TCM) and WTF by Robert Peston (30K TCM); books that contextualise the problems of the political landscape, and seek to offer new answers to the reader’s most pressing questions.