Video March 2026
Why Readers Can't Put Down The Dream Keepers
A conversation about The Dream Keepers — what the book is about, why readers keep turning the pages, and the ideas that drove it.
London · Fiction & Non-Fiction
Stories that
unfold long after the last page turns.
Seven books, including the Dream Keepers trilogy. Writing that takes its time. The eighth is being written now.
Fiction Series · Book One
The Dream Keepers
ZENA
Mona has a gift — the ability to enter dreams and reshape them from the inside. When she discovers an underground world of lucid dreamers using astral travel to infiltrate an extraordinary theme park, she must choose between the waking world and everything she thought she wanted. A page-turning debut of imagination, mystery, and wonder.
"A world where dreams and reality collide — and nothing is quite what it seems." — The Dream Keepers
Book One of the Dream Keepers Trilogy · eBook
The Work
Three books,
written in dreams.
Book One
The Dream Keepers
Mona discovers a world of lucid dreamers and astral travel — and must choose who she really is.
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Book Two
The Dream Keepers – Awake
Mona ventures into forbidden realms where dreams and reality begin to merge in dangerous ways.
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Book Three
The Dream Keepers – Architects of Duality
The trilogy concludes as Mona faces the constructs of the mind and tests of loyalty she never expected.
Read more →“She has mastered the art of writing about very small things — a hand gesture, a word misheard across a room — and making them feel like the whole weight of a life.”
— The Times Literary Supplement
Between Novels
Essays &
Short Fiction
The smaller rooms of a writing life. Essays on place, memory, and the practice of paying attention. Short fiction published in literary magazines and journals.
All Writing Journal March 2026
On the Fourth Novel: Where It Stands
Eighteen months in, two false starts, one chapter that survived both of them. A brief account of where the new book currently lives and what it is refusing to become.
Reading February 2026
What I Read in January
Penelope Fitzgerald, a Norwegian novel about a lighthouse, and a collection of essays about grief that I keep putting down and picking back up.
The Author
She writes in the early hours,
before the city remembers itself.
ZENA is the author of seven novels published by Captivate Publishing. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and read across the world.
She lives and works in London, where she is currently at work on her eighth novel.
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7
Novels Published
11
Languages
Booker
Prize Longlist
8th
Novel in Progress
Critical Reception
“A writer of rare precision and even rarer mercy. The Meridian Hours is a masterwork of restraint.”
The Guardian
“She has an extraordinary ear for the sentence that arrives exactly when you have stopped expecting it.”
The New York Times Book Review
“Every few years a novel arrives that makes all other fiction feel slightly less necessary. This is that novel.”
The London Review of Books