Katabasis PB

<p>Prepare for one hell of a journey...</p> <p>'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN</p> <p>'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE</p> <p>'[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE</p> <p>'I devoured it' RED</p> <p>One of the BBC's 25 best books of 2025</p> <p>Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.</p> <p>Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.</p> <p>But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.</p> <p>But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she's going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.</p> <p>That's if they can agree on anything.</p> <p>Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?</p> <p>2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.</p> <p>'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach' THE HERALD</p> <p>'Mind-bending fantasy' GRAZIA</p>