{"product_id":"our-friends-at-the-convenience-store-by-the-sea-sonoko-machida-9781398728820","title":"[PRE-ORDER] - Our Friends At The Convenience Store By The Sea (Expected 30\/11\/2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe third instalment of the bestselling series that sold over half a million copies, Our Friends at the Convenience Store by the Sea follows the customers and employees of a beloved 24\/7 convenience store in Japan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I believe that everyone has, at one time or another, overcome some hardship in their life, thanks to the companionship of a fictional friend'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e****************\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor our friends at the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, there's never a dull day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitsuri's heart is fluttering because her favourite pop idol is in town! But why does he seem so down?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHirose has always stayed away from drama... so how has he been roped into a fake romance with the woman who ruined Tsugi's life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJewel doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. Sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected sources...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShiba's fan club is always expanding... but things have taken a strange turn...\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***********\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSonoko Machida (Author)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSonoko 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48906923475101,"sku":"9781398728820","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/OurFriendsAtTheConvenienceStoreByTheSea_9781398728820_mphbooks.jpg?v=1791426294","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/our-friends-at-the-convenience-store-by-the-sea-sonoko-machida-9781398728820","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}