Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida
$23.00 Inc GST
Welcome to Tenderness. Our doors are always open.
Having a bad day? Visit the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu.
A sweet treat to lift your spirits.
A quiet place to talk over a warm meal.
A kind word when you need it most.
The sound of the sea in the distance.
You’ll always find more than you imagined possible here…
Returning to the bestselling series that sold over half a million copies, Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea follows the customers and employees of a beloved 24/7 convenience store in Japan.
The second charming and quirky volume in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning Japanese author Sonoko Machida
About the Author: Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece 52 herutsu no kujira-tachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers’ Award and became a bestseller with about half a million copies sold in Japan. Her two following novels, Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up the Stars) and Sora gohan (Sora’s Recipes), were both nominated for the award in consecutive years.
30 Apr 2026
Additional information
| Format | Paperback / softback |
|---|---|
| Genre | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Readership Level | General (US: Trade) |
| ISBN | 9781398728790 |
| Publication Date | 30 Apr 2026 |
Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida ISBN 9781398728790