Join RF Kuang at the Emmanuel Centre in London, in partnership with Waterstones Piccadilly - London, to celebrate the release of her stunning new dark academia fantasy novel, ‘Katabasis’. RF Kuang will be in conversation with Samantha Shannon, the fantasy powerhouse author of ‘The Bones Season’ series and ‘The Priory of the Orange Tree’.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.

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?

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Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham St, London , SW1P 3DW