{"product_id":"9780008501907","title":"Katabasis by , R.F. Kuang","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kuang, R.F.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFantasy\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 May 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperVoyager) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 560 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129 | 270g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 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 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 '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","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57939137986941,"sku":"9780008501907","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9780008501907.jpg?v=1773746065","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/es\/products\/9780008501907","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}