How to Lose a Country

Highly readable and vibrates with outrage * * The Times * * 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 This is essential -- MARGARET ATWOOD The burning topic of today: populism. Vivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, this book is essential reading for everyone on planet Earth -- ANDREW SEAN GREER This is a keenly observed and passionately written book. Read it or be prepared to lose your country -- RABIH ALAMEDDINE A stunning, sane and intimate chronicle of a world gone nuts. An urgent whisper in our ears about our modern dictators and their collaborators -- MOHAMMED HANIF 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 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