THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel’New York Times‘Extraordinary’TLS‘The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece’ Roberto SavianoA startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. M tells the story of the rise of fascism from within the mind of its founder. A gripping and masterful exposé, it explores Benito Mussolini’s rise to power and a movement that, amidst a failing democracy, came to shape the world.‘Panoptic and polyphonic, Scurati’s book gives us the experiences of the fearful and the feared, the rhetoric of both the revolutionaries and the reactionaries … an immense mosaic’ Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman‘An indisputable literary achievement … Italo Calvino would have loved it’ El Paìs