Fourth Estate gets Together with Temelkuran

Fourth Estate has landed Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now from acclaimed Turkish author and journalist Ece Temelkuran.

Associate publisher Helen Garnons-Williams and assistant editor Jordan Mulligan acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Robert Caskie at Robert Caskie Limited. It will be published as a hardback in March 2021. 

The blurb explains: “Together is a passionate and inspiring defence of humankind in our turbulent age. A blend of memoir, polemic, political and historical analysis, it outlines 10 choices we can make to build a new political narrative for ourselves: how we can choose how to be, and what we can do, to create a future that puts faith in humanity first.”

Temelkuran is the author of How To Lose a Country: The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (Fourth Estate), described by Margaret Atwood as “essential” and by Philip Pullman as “one of the most important books anyone could read at the moment”. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow on Knots (Parthian), and the Ambassador of New Europe Award.

Temelkuran said: “There has been enough hand-wringing and inconsequential anger; enough 'What did we do wrong to end up in this global mess?' It is time to put our heads together and find a way out. This book is my proposition for the exit plan from today's moral and political disaster. We have spent enough time saying that we need a new story for the new age. This is the new story of our age, so we can all finally take a step forward towards dignity, justice and a better now.”

Garnons-Williams added: “As exhilarating as it is illuminating, Together demonstrates once again why Ece Temelkuran is one of our foremost contemporary political writers and thinkers.  She has a remarkable ability to cut through the noise and draw connections that truly make us see the world, and its possibilities, differently.”

Caskie commented: “It is a privilege and pleasure working with Ece and I am delighted that Helen and her excellent team at 4th Estate will continue to publish her with such passion and vigour.”