Books published by Head of Zeus

AD 647. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Greed and ambition threaten to tear the north apart. The eighth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles.

The Great War has been over for years, and a brave new world forged. Inception meets Metropolis, by way of The Great Gatsby, in a deco-punk tale of unchecked technology, and the unforeseen costs of utopia.

In 1920s London a perfect family faces ruin if the truth about their daughter is revealed.

Three women. Three love stories. One dress. From Dani Atkins, winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2018.

Short stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, take you from Earth to the edge of the Universe and back again.

The third instalment in a series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance.

A psychopath has taken over the city's leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage. For each hostage he calls a number from the phonebook, at random. If they answer with a specific slogan, a hostage goes free. If they don't, a hostage dies.

The second book in Lavie Tidhar's Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet - a subversive remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation. Will Scarlet, back from the crusades, hopped up on khat and cider and stabbed thrice in the belly but somehow still alive, is heading home to Nottingham. And things are not right in Nottingham.

The final instalment of the Rise of Emperors trilogy. 312 AD is a year of horrific and brutal warfare. There is only one way Constantine and Maxentius' rivalry will end. With one on a bloodied sword and the other the sole ruler of Rome...

Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new horror from Graham Masterton.

A study of Africa's demographics - its youth and its growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future, from an expert on the subject.

A history of Islamic thought - from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day.

May we present the world's first hydro-punk novel: a rollicking fantasy epic full of humble kitchen magic and awe-inspiring civil engineering.

A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read, forensically and wittily observed, incisively mixing memoir, reportage and analysis' Daily Mail'He has a light touch, a way of glancing off things and leaving our perception of them changed. He can dazzle. He tells a good story' Irish TimesThe reunification of Ireland, which seemed in 1998 to have been pushed over the far horizon as an aspiration, has returned with a vengeance. Brexit calls into question the British commitment to Northern Ireland and threatens its economy. There has been a surge in support for Sinn Fein south of the border. This is a dangerous and divisive issue, and will become more so if Sinn Fein enters the government of the Republic, as seems inevitable in the next couple of years. They are pushing relentlessly, as only that cult-like party knows how, for a poll on the future of the border.In The Last Irish Question Glenn Patterson views the south through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant, travelling the entire country and looking at this place he is being asked to join and which his people have spent a very long time shunning. Most of the south is terra incognita to them (as it is to many people who live in Dublin).There have been countless books describing and travelling through Ulster, but never a book like this that turns its gaze the other way: a journey of discovery through the south by a sceptical northerner. The attitudes Patterson exposes in those rural and small town areas outside Dublin will probably come as a shock to many Irish readers. Patterson is a witty, brilliant observer and this will be a highly enjoyable as well as alarmingly topical book.

DI Silas Hart investigates a murder in a crop circle in Wiltshire, in the new high-concept thriller from J.S. Monroe.

Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559.

A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence.

The final instalment of The Tales of Fenest. Detective Cora Gorderheim must make a terrible choice: her sister's life, or the future of the Union.

A violent snow storm forces Berlin's most exclusive psychiatric clinic into lockdown - trapping a dangerous psychopath inside - in the chilling new thriller from international bestseller Sebastian Fitzek.

Evan Ryder returns to Washington to find her department shut down and her sister's children missing.

When Faiza's husband loses his job, she must conceal that she's spent the family's emergency savings trying to keep up with the Yummy Mummies of Wimbledon, in this debut from British-Pakistani author, Aliya Ali-Afzal.

A family is found dead years after their true-crime Netflix documentary made them infamous, only their surviving son can uncover the truth behind the tragedy in this psychological thriller.

Winter, 1364. Sir Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War, has travelled to France to secure Brittany for England. But soon he is ordered to Castile, to defend England's ally from the French.

A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War.

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London.