Alongside tips on household management from Mary Berry and help with home cooking from Nigella Lawson, a different kind of guide is also due to land on bookshop shelves this Christmas: How to Stop Brexit, by the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

Publisher the Bodley Head has announced that Clegg’s manual about remaining in the EU would be published on 5 October. How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again) will, said the publisher, see the former leader of the Liberal Democrats show that there is “nothing remotely inevitable” about Brexit – and lay out how readers can help to stop it.

“He argues that it is the democratic right of voters to review Brexit and to change their minds if they wish to,” said the publisher on 15 August. “Clegg explains precisely how this historic mistake can be reversed and how the country can be reunited in the process. At its heart are simple, practical, effective measures, including step-by-step plans, which the reader can take to ensure this happens. The book offers readers of every political allegiance non-partisan ways to pull together in response to the greatest crisis in a generation and prevent disaster.”

Supporters of the Stronger In Campaign react as June 2016’s EU referendum does not go their way. Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images

Clegg lost his seat in Sheffield Hallam at this summer’s general election. His 2016 memoir Politics: Between the Extremes made the Sunday Times’ bestseller charts, and saw the politician describe the EU referendum result as “one of the greatest acts of national self-immolation in modern times”, predicting that over the long term it would probably lead to “the break-up of the UK, the possible disintegration of the EU itself, significant economic and social damage to the fabric of our society, and, to all intents and purposes, the end of Britain’s role as a major world power”.

His “pragmatic” new manifesto will, said the Bodley Head, “categorically debunk the myths that have been used by a powerful elite” to justify Britain’s departure from the EU.

The news was welcomed by booksellers. “We are very excited about Nick Clegg’s upcoming book,” said Waterstones non-fiction buyer Clement Knox. “The last 12 months have seen the publication of some outstanding politics titles, as writers, readers, and publishers clamour to understand the total transformation of global politics in what feels like no time at all. In a sense Clegg was ahead of the curve, as his memoir Politics – which was originally intended for publication in the spring of 2016 and was pushed back on account of the Brexit vote – was a meditation on the trials of negotiating the middle ground of British politics.”

Knox placed How to Stop Brexit in a “new trend of resistance handbooks”, which also include historian Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, campaigner Matthew Bolton’s How to Resist and Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark. They are, said Knox, “short, polemical books that are punchy and portable and ideal for reading on the commute”.

Clegg’s publisher described his addition to the genre as “the indispensable handbook to saving your country from an utterly pointless calamity”.