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' REDOne of the BBC's 25 best books of 2025Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.

The searing follow-up to 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR.Rin is on the run…Haunted by the atrocity she committed to save her people, addicted to opium, and driven by the murderous commands of Phoenix, the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power.Rin’s only reason for living is to get revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold her homeland, Nikan, to her enemies.With no other options, Rin joins forces with...

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrif...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER‘One for Philip Pullman fans’THE TIMES‘This one is an automatic buy’GLAMOUR‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’EVENING STANDARD‘Razor-sharp’DAILY MAIL‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’GUARDIAN

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018’ – WIREDA brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.When Rin aced the Keju – the test to find the most talented students in the Empire – it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province...

Baden-Baden: the baths, the song, the grand casino! Our heroes search still, but what is life without a little distraction?So let the dancers sway, the cards play, and the music swell – if only for a moment.But where is the mysterious R.F.? And where does the Revenant hide among the smiling crowd?

I looked at my watch—9:42 a.m. on the twenty-eighth day of September. It was the exact moment I fell in love with the girl on the bridge.Discarded in a dumpster at birth and never adopted, MC has been crippled by social anxiety for most of his twenty-five years. Then one day, during an eventful bicycle ride through the Nova Scotia countryside, he has an improbable encounter with a woman on a bridge that changes everything. Although no words are spoken at the time, it’s love at firs...

A stunning full-cast dramatisation of R.F. Delderfield's classic novel of life between the warsListen now to this epic story of tragedy, love and betrayal set during the inter-war period as soldier Davy Powlett-Jones, invalided out of the trenches, must face a new start in life…A coal miner's son, Davy has risen from the ranks of the South Wales Borderers and been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant after serving three years in the front-line trenches in the...

Have you ever fantasized about flipping open a private diary and peeping into someone’s most intimate sexual secrets?Inside these pages, you will witness: * A wife transforming into a dominant mistress, taming her husband with handcuffs and whips;A breathless, heat-fueled threesome igniting in the heart of a gym;The sudden, raw surrender to hidden lust in the middle of a quiet office...Do you want to feel the pulse and the rush of ordinary people slowly drow...

Die Bienenkönigin, Mutter unserer Zivilisation und Herrscherin der bekannten Welt, muss geopfert werden, um ihre Pläne der totalen Welteroberung zu vereiteln. Clement wurde in einer Imkerei in Mexiko geboren und wuchs mit den geheimen Traditionen der alten Maya auf. Während seines Initiationsrituals in einer verborgenen Höhle wird er von der Vorahnung eines fürchterlichen persönlichen Schicksals erschüttert. In San Francisco, Kalifornien, lernt er Enos und Cyrus kennen, zwei außergewöhnlic...

Este libro cosntituye un análisis trasnhumanista de las posibles líneas de economía política, para un futuro con justicia social e igualdad de oportunidades.

This book offers a unique bottom-up perspective of a technology for the manufacturing of low-complexity hardware components, which elevates this to a key enabling technology of 6G and future networks. This MEMS-based technology enables the fabrication of highly miniaturized, high-performance, widely tunable/reconfigurable and frequency agile passives, among which are low-loss/high-isolation micro-switches, multi-state RF power attenuators, delay lines and impedance tuners, high-order switc...