ANZ Immersive Reads

WINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of lang... Read more

Perfect for fans of STRANGE HOUSES and BUTTERExit 8 is an innovative work of storytelling, and an ingenious locked-room mystery unlike any other.A young man is riding the Tokyo subway when he recei... Read more

Anna was never going to have an easy time at her best friend's wedding. She's the bridesmaid; her ex, Joel, is a groomsman. But she's determined to get through the festivities with a smile on her f... Read more

A dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and home—from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again. The world is ending. It has been ending for some t... Read more

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.'Translation is longing. You never get it right... Read more

A DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 'MUST READ' FOR 2026'A smart, razor-sharp takedown of the machismo of Big Oil' CAOILINN HUGHES'Propulsive and engrossing and deeply fascinating' SAFIA ELHILLO'A thrilling and... Read more

'A comic odyssey, a crime thriller and a nuts-and-bolts account of making art. Not bad for one book!' PAUL KELLYIt's 1991, and Australian singer-songwriters Mick Woods and Drew Lovelock - 'tall and... Read more

Perhaps motherhood is always a promise that cannot be kept.When her children are born, Nellika vows she will be the perfect mother. Motherhood is sacred, mythic: it will remake everything that is b... Read more

SHORTLISTED FOR THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE The price of genius is one hell of a hangover.In 1892, New South Wales' most promisi... Read more

A gripping new legal thriller from a beloved Australian author, perfect for fans of The Murder Rule and Prima Facie.New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm.She's too qui... Read more

A razor-sharp psychological suspense thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn about the family secrets that bind us—and break us.When Elspeth returns from New York to her hometown of Geelong, it's ... Read more

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters.Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy is an absolute mess. She is irritable, depressed, angry, weepy, out of control. She lays in bed, stares at the wall... Read more

Dragons soar above the city. Gangsters rule the streets. And one theft could start a war.In the sprawling archipelago of Rainshadow, dragons soar above neon-lit skylines, ancient Sun Spirits walk u... Read more

Homeless on Auckland's streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the city's forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer – or be next. The gripping second ins... Read more

'Great book. Weird, wonderful. I loved this' Matt HaigIn a near future, where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a young Roomba vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a ris... Read more

'Gorgeous, immersive... both epic and intimate, funny and wise' Roisín O'Donnell'Moving, thought-provoking, and utterly delightful' Elif Batuman 'Took me back to the way I felt when reading No... Read more

It's a beautiful day to be alive, Bill Dickerson thought, seconds before he tumbled from the viaduct onto the jagged rocks below . . .His awful death made national news. But still, one year on, Bil... Read more

'A pure action horror movie set-up, a life-or-death moral dilemma and a terrific, devious twist... I could hardly look away' GILLY MACMILLAN, AUTHOR OF THE BURNING LIBRARY One week to escape High i... Read more

Two estranged sisters reconnect in the aftermath of ecological and social collapse, in this work of suspenseful, deeply human literary speculative fiction.They drift in their sleep, waiting for som... Read more

'No one writes Aussie rom-com like Anita Heiss.' Rachael Johns Matters of the heart have always made Annabelle run for the hills – literally. After a disastrous relationship effectively torc... Read more