Katabasis [Special Deluxe Edition]

<p>'A formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE</p> <p>'A novel to savour. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS</p> <p>'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO</p> <p>'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now' THE HERALD</p> <p>'Mind-bending fantasy' GRAZIA</p> <br> <br> <p>'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE</p> <p>'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS</p> <p>'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO</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 novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.</p>