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Matcha on Monday
  • Published: 2 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529969078
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrators: Winson Ting, Ami Okumura Jones, Sadao Ueda, Daniel Bunton
  • RRP: $34.99
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Matcha on Monday

Formats & editions
Hardback
30 June 2026
EBook
2 July 2026
Audiobook
2 July 2026
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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 and HEALING HIPPO OF HINODE PARK

By the million-copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY, a Times bestseller and Time magazine Top 100 title

From the three-times nominated author for the Japan Booksellers award: Volume Two of the Marble Cafe series, in which customers, staff, artists and manager connect over 12 powerful episodes to create vivid experiences of unexpected happy encounters and anonymous kindness.

Loving praise from international readers for MATCHA ON MONDAY:
‘These words resonate in my heart’ *****
‘I felt the depth of each relationship and burst into tears a few times’ *****
‘A miraculous story that shows the importance of giving things perspective’ *****
‘It would be a great idea to read this together with HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY’*****
‘The same taste and feeling as drinking a cup of matcha’ *****
  • Published: 2 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529969078
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrators: Winson Ting, Ami Okumura Jones, Sadao Ueda, Daniel Bunton
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Michiko Aoyama

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 café in Tokyo. Another book available in English by Aoyama and translated by Takami Nieda is the international bestseller The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park. Her latest novel to be published in English, Talking in a Moonlit Forest was also shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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Also by Michiko Aoyama

What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park
Penguin Readers Level 4: What You Are Looking for is in the Library (ELT Graded Reader)
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