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Alice Law hat ihr ganzes Leben lang nur ein Ziel verfolgt: die Beste auf dem Feld der Analytischen Magie zu werden. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, ihrem Professor in die Hölle zu folgen. Mit den Berichten von Orpheus, Dante und T. S. Eliot im Gepäck brechen die beiden auf, um die Seele ihres Mentors zu retten - welchen Preis sie dafür auch zahlen mögen.

Prepare for one hell of a journey… 'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN 'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE '[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE ' I devoured it' RED One of the BBC's 25 best books of 2025 Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to...

An Audiofile Earphones Award Winner, featuring dual narration from Morag Sims and Will Watt Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students...

Alice Law hat ihr ganzes Leben lang nur ein Ziel verfolgt: die Beste auf dem Feld der Analytischen Magie zu werden. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, ihrem Professor in die Hölle zu folgen. Mit den Berichten von Orpheus, Dante und T. S. Eliot im Gepäck brechen die beiden auf, um die Seele ihres Mentors zu retten - welchen Preis sie auch zahlen mögen.

Catabase, nom féminin, du grec ancien katábasis : descente du héros aux Enfers. Alice Law a tout donné pour réussir : son énergie, son temps et sa santé mentale. Doctorante en magie analytique à Cambridge, son unique objectif est d'être titularisée et légitimer ainsi son talent de...

Abtauchen in die Geschichte der Philosophie Zwei anonyme Briefe findet die 14-Jährige Sofie in ihrem Briefkasten. In beiden steht nur ein Satz: "Wer bist du?" und "Woher kommt die Welt?" So beginnt Sofies abenteuerliche Zeitreise durch die Jahrtausende der Philosophie. Doch: Wer gibt ihr...

Atemberaubende und romantische Spannung von Bestsellerautorin Colleen Hoover Die Jungautorin Lowen Ashleigh bekommt ein Angebot, das sie unmöglich ablehnen kann: Sie soll die gefeierten Psychothriller von Starautorin Verity Crawford zu Ende schreiben. Diese liegt seit einem Unfall, der...

Thirteenth-century Europe has been saved from annihilation at the hands of the Mongols, to be sure, but new and terrible threats are at hand: political and religious turmoil threaten to turn the warriors' world upside down once more. Painted against a rich backdrop of medieval mysticism and Russian folklore, Katabasis weaves together the tales of victor and victim alike in a fearless exploration of what it means not just to survive, but to truly live again.

The international bestseller. A masterful tale of doppelgängers, betrayal and uncovering who you are. 'A mind bending thriller about personhood, homeland nostalgia, global migration, and all forms of alienation' – R. F. Kuang, author of Yellowface and Katabasis 'Brilliantly realised...

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Hell is empty and all the devils are here... Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living...

Alice Law ha sempre avuto un solo obiettivo: diventare una delle menti più brillanti nel campo della magia. Per realizzarlo ha sacrificato molto: l'orgoglio, la salute, l'amore e, soprattutto, la sua salute mentale. Tutto per lavorare a Cambridge con il professor Jacob Grimes, il più grande mago del mondo. Ma poi il professore muore in un incidente magico di cui lei è forse l'unica responsabile.

For as long as Signa Farrow has been alive, the people in her life have fallen like stars . . . Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being - and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives...

The first novel in a dazzling epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Japanese folklore and Studio Ghibli, set within a mythical archipelago brimming with dragons and Sun Spirits, high-tech hackers and bubble tea. Life is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption...

Paula und Peter sind schon seit Langem Kollegen. Sie ist Ärztin, er arbeitet als Jurist in der Klinikverwaltung. Ein Interesse der beiden aneinander war schon immer da. Nach einem mehrtägigen Seminar verbringen sie die letzte Nacht miteinander. Auf der Rückfahrt nach Hause kommen die beiden...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Blythe Hawthorn has never let anyone tell her what to do . . . and she's not about to start now. Headstrong and passionate, she won't be ruled by society, or by her overprotective father, and certainly not by the man she's bound herself to, no matter how insufferable...

Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue...

Heather Morell is haunted. Otherworldly nightmares and monstrous hallucinations lurk around every corner, relics of childhood bereavement and schizophrenia. Until she meets Evelyn and Raine—a bad-tempered mage and her self-proclaimed bodyguard—and learns that she’s not insane after all. The monsters she sees are all too real, the god-thing in her nightmares is teaching her the secrets of creation, and her twin sister—the lost girl who supposedly never existed—might still be clinging on, a dwindling soul somewhere beyond the walls of reality, Outside. 

A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'Everything that great literature should be.' Sarah Perry ' His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'An all-encompassing...

'A wondrous book' JOHN GREEN 'What a wonderful ride' V. E. SCHWAB 'A delicious and diabolical feast' CASEY MCQUISTON 'Funny, devastating, achingly romantic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'The freshest contemporary fantasy I've read in years' LAURA STEVEN 'Wildly creative, very funny, and searingly angry' FREYA...

A podcast exploring the personal journeys of those working with chthonic and death deities. What drew them to this path and why is it important.https://linktr.ee/KatabasisPodcast?utm_source=linktree_profile_share