Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
SUZANNE KAMATA
Stories about individuals caught between duty and desire, mostly set in Japan
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
Suzanne Kamata
An American ex-patriot in Japan goes to desperate lengths to be reunited with her son.
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
The American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the Inland Sea. The…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
SQUEAKY WHEELS: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair is a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with comparative culture and accessibility awareness. Kamata’s adventures with her teen–who…
Suzanne Kamata’s many fans know she writes wonderful fiction, but with Waiting we learn she’s a poet too. Every poem in this small, beautiful book is a spare, lyrical gem…
Synopsis coming soon…….
This honest collection of literary writing including fiction, essays, and poetry, explores the rocky emotional terrain of raising a child with a mental or physical disability. The families featured in…
Women around the world ponder the unique joys and challenges of raising children across two or more cultures.
A teenaged Elise Faulkner feels more at home in water than on land–where her beauty queen mom is constantly criticizing her and her sister is dating the boy of her…
Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team-a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now…
This collection about expatriates in Cuba, Egypt, Australia, Japan and France confronts universal matters of the heart.
When Christine, an idealistic young American teacher, meets and marries Hideki Yamada, an aspiring Japanese high school baseball coach, she believes that their love with be enough to sustain them…
Pearl Dubois is a Southern belle. She was born in New Orleans to a prominent and wealthy family. During the Second World War, she wants to help the Allies. She…
Laura Murata is a university professor in Japan. She is also a divorced mother of Maya, a seven-year-old girl. Widower Kazu Mori is a dentist. He is raising his son…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
The much anticipated sequel to Gadget Girl, Indigo Girl picks up the story of Aiko Cassidy, bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, cool kid, and manga artist, now 15 years old…
Gadget Girl began as a novella published in Cicada. The story won the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award in Fiction and was included in an anthology of the best stories published…
CINNAMON BEACH is a multicultural tragicomedy told from three strong female points of view in which an American writer living in Japan returns to South Carolina to scatter the ashes…
Satoshi spent the last three years in Atlanta as the star of his baseball team. When he moves back to Japan, he has the chance to be a hero until…
![Cover image for Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters [Dyslexic Edition]](https://thumbs.readings.com.au/1lkxxN41LUaV8KU4gEkJZjx8zjk=/200x0/https://readings-v4-production.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/1e6/cb4/785/1e6cb4785df015ffedec4e4e4bb5af66cb8e8981/978103876404120240201-2-vvl89v.jpg)
