Head of Zeus
Head of Zeus is a London publisher of genre fiction and narrative non-fiction, founded by Anthony Cheetham in 2012 and bought by Bloomsbury in 2021.
- Editions tracked
- 31
- First editions
- 16
- Books
- 29
- Years
- 2013 to 2023
Head of Zeus is a publisher based in United Kingdom, founded in 2012. We track 31 editions it published between 2013 and 2023, 16 of them first editions across 29 books. Each book lists its first edition and the points that identify it.
About Head of Zeus
Head of Zeus is a London independent publisher of genre fiction, narrative non-fiction and children's books, founded in 2012 by the publishing veteran Anthony Cheetham and owned by Bloomsbury since 2021. Wikidata records its inception as 3 January 2012. Cheetham had earlier co-founded the Orion Publishing Group in 1991.
The list grew around commercial and genre authors. Bloomsbury's announcement of the purchase named Dan Jones, Cixin Liu, Victoria Hislop, Lesley Thomson and Elodie Harper among its writers; Cixin Liu's Three-Body trilogy was then being adapted for the screen by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and Harper's The Wolf Den (2021) reached number 5 on The Times bestseller list.
Bloomsbury completed the acquisition on 2 June 2021, valuing the company at £8.45 million including existing loans. In the year to 31 December 2020 Head of Zeus had revenue of £8.6 million and pre-tax profit of £0.3 million. It now runs as an independent imprint inside Bloomsbury's Consumer division.
Because the firm only began in 2012, any Head of Zeus edition of an older book is a later reissue, not a first edition.
We have not yet written the guide to Head of Zeus's first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Head of Zeus marked its firsts? Tell us.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Head of Zeus books does MyVolumes track?
We track 31 editions published by Head of Zeus, 16 of them first editions, across 29 books.
Where these facts come from
- Bloomsbury acquisition strengthens Consumer division: Acquisition of Head of Zeus Limited, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2021 (bloomsbury-ir.co.uk)
- Bloomsbury Has Double-Digit Gains in Fiscal '21, Buys Head of Zeus, Publishers Weekly, 2021 (publishersweekly.com)
- Bloomsbury buys Head of Zeus in £8.5m deal, The Bookseller, 2021 (thebookseller.com)
- Head of Zeus (Q102238814), Wikidata (wikidata.org)
- Orion Publishing Group, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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