Katabasis - Rebecca F Kuang's Dark Academia Fantasy Bestseller
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'A novel to savour. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS
'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now' THE HERALD
‘Mind-bending fantasy’ GRAZIA
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Discover Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, the 2025 dark academia fantasy bestseller. Follow graduate students on a thrilling journey through Hell to save their professor. Perfect for fans of gripping fantasy, intellectual thrillers, and immersive storytelling. Shop securely now with free UK shipping on orders over £25 - order your copy today before they're all gone!
What's Katabasis about?
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.
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.
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.
That’s if they can agree on anything.
Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
2025’s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang.