<span style="">Prepare for one hell of a journey…</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">'[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">'I devoured it' RED</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">2025’s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">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.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">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.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">That’s if they can agree on anything.</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach' THE HERALD</span><br><span style=""><br></span><br><span style="">‘Mind-bending fantasy’ GRAZIA</span>