{"product_id":"9780008501860","title":"Katabasis","description":"Author: R.F. Kuang,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrepare for one hell of a journey…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'I devoured it' RED\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One of the BBC's 25 best books of 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2025’s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e That’s if they can agree on anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach' THE HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Mind-bending fantasy’ GRAZIA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback \u003cbr\u003e Published: 26\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 560 pages\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e Series: \u003cbr\u003e Imprint: HarperVoyager\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Fantasy romance\u003cbr\u003e Weight(g): 854\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions(mm): 241 x 163 x 39\u003cbr\u003e EAN: 9780008501860","brand":"The BookLover Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53980351660371,"sku":"9780008501860","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/6399\/4451\/files\/9780008501860.jpg?v=1781189347","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookloverclub.co.uk\/products\/9780008501860","provider":"The Book Lover Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}