Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Collins, 2025)
Fantasy
R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis (ISBN: 9780008501860, hardback). 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. 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.