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Hot Chocolate on Thursday

By Michiko Aoyama
Series: The Marble Café series
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Brief Description
Without even realising it, we may touch and change someone else's life. This is the debut novel by the multi-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library. Much-loved modern classic by the bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is... Read More
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Without even realising it, we may touch and change someone else's life. This is the debut novel by the multi-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.

Much-loved modern classic by the bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

Readers love Hot Chocolate on Thursday:

  • 'Slipped into my heart and warmed me, just like a cup of cocoa' ★★★★★
  • 'I definitely recommend this book!' ★★★★★
  • 'Thursday is the beginning of the second half of the week. I felt restored reading this' ★★★★★
  • 'Reminds you that everyone is living their own daily joy and pain. Heartwarming' ★★★★★
  • 'This made me realise how we magically influence each other's lives without realising it' ★★★★★

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'I learned first-hand how people, flora, and fauna interact. All that breathes on this Earth is interconnected.'

Across a bridge in a quiet neighbourhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favourite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees...

Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters and reverberate far beyond our own lives to make a real difference in the world.

Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe.

What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.

Series: The Marble Café series

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  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday
    Without even realising it, we may touch and change someone else's life. This is the debut novel by the multi-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library. Much-loved modern classic by the bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Readers love Hot...
    By Michiko Aoyama
    Hardback
    $3000
    Elsewhere:
    $3800
    In Stock
    Ships Monday
  • Matcha on Monday
    New Release
    Matcha on Monday
    Irresistible companion piece to Hot Chocolate on Thursday, set in a charming cafe, by the million-copy bestselling brand author of What You Are Looking For is in the Library. The Global Bestseller By the multi-million-copy author of What You Are Looking For is in the Library, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tucked behind the trees in a...
    By Michiko Aoyama
    Hardback
    $3000
    Elsewhere:
    $3800
    In Stock
    Ships Monday

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529950120

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Doubleday

Contributors:

  • Translated by Emmie Madison Shimoda
  • Translated by E. Madison Shimoda

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Michiko Aoyama (Author) Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. She is the author of the multi-million-copy bestselling What You Are Looking For is in the Library, translated by Alison Watts, which was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. Matcha on Monday is a companion read to the author's debut, Hot Chocolate on Thursday. Both are set in and around the fictitious Marble Cafe, a tiny community cafe in Tokyo. Another book available in English by Aoyama and translated by Takami Nieda is the international bestseller The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.

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  • What You Are Looking for is in the Library
    The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times. THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL The Top Ten Times bestseller A Time Magazine Book of the Year 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times 'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily...
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  • Matcha on Monday
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    Irresistible companion piece to Hot Chocolate on Thursday, set in a charming cafe, by the million-copy bestselling brand author of What You Are Looking For is in the Library. The Global Bestseller By the multi-million-copy author of What You Are Looking For is in the Library, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tucked behind the trees in a...
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