
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
Michiko Aoyama(Author)
Doubleday (Publisher)
Published on 19. February 2026
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-5299-5012-0 (ISBN)
Description
Michiko Aoyama's second novel in English, now in paperback: THE HEALING HIPPO OF HINODE PARK
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THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER
The Japanese bestselling modern classic by the original healing fiction author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
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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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Across a bridge, by some cherry blossom lies 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 lives of 12 customers and staff 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 offer unexpected encounters and ultimately change a life.
HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY connects twelve 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 readers connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.
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Have you tried the uplifting THE HEALING HIPPO OF HINODE PARK also by Michiko Aoyama?
_____________
THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER
The Japanese bestselling modern classic by the original healing fiction 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' *****
___________
Across a bridge, by some cherry blossom lies 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 lives of 12 customers and staff 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 offer unexpected encounters and ultimately change a life.
HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY connects twelve 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 readers connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.
_________
Have you tried the uplifting THE HEALING HIPPO OF HINODE PARK also by Michiko Aoyama?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-5012-0 (9781529950120)
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Michiko Aoyama
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
The bestselling healing classic by the author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY
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02/2026
Transworld Digital
€10.99
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Michiko Aoyama 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.
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.