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泣きたいときもあるけれど、食べて、飲んで、生きていく！ 犬森祥子、バツイチ、アラサー、職業は「見守り屋」。営業時間は夜から朝まで。様々な事情を抱える客からの依頼で人やペットなど、とにかく頼まれたものを寝ずの番で見守る。

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series. What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores this...

美味しい！が明日の元気になる バツイチ・アラサー「見守り屋」の犬森祥子は今宵も依頼人の寂しさやモヤモヤに寄り添い、夜勤明けの一杯で疲れを癒す。 大ヒット！ 人間ドラマ×絶品グルメ小説第３弾。

Chris Wright thought moving to the country would be simple. A new house. Fresh air. Chickens in the yard. A quieter life with Mia, Zooey, and Echo, built on their own terms, far from the noise of the city. Ashbury has other ideas. The town is cool and watchful, tight-lipped, and clearly unimpressed with the life they’re trying to build. Doors stay closed. Smiles feel forced. And no matter how hard Chris tries to fit in, it’s obvious they’re being quietly shut out. Then he meets Hazel. Bright, kind, and endlessly generous, Hazel radiates a warmth that pulls people in without effort.

「見守り屋、やってみない？」 五年付き合った彼氏から突然の婚約破棄を告げられ、恋人と住処をなくした派遣社員の水沢恵麻。さらにコロナ不況で仕事まで失い、失意のどん底に。彼女を救ったのは、便利屋「中野お助け本舗」の亀山と犬森祥子だった。

Josie Klein und Ryan Lawson betreiben Buchläden in derselben Bostoner Straße – sie mit ernster Literatur, er mit unterhaltenden Liebesromanen. Als der neue Besitzer beide Läden fusionieren will, beginnt ein erbitterter Wettbewerb: Wer den größten Gewinn erzielt, wird Manager. Josies Ordnung trifft auf Ryans Chaos, hitzige Konflikte sind vorprogrammiert. Doch die beiden verbindet mehr, als sie anfangs denken. Denn ohne um die Identität des anderen zu wissen, führen sie vertrausvolle Gespräche in einem Bücherforum im Internet.

Meet Harriet White, Sherlock Holmes' feisty – and entirely fake – assistant, in this gloriously fun mystery, perfect for fans of Anita Prose, Verity Bright and Janice Hallett. 🔎 London, 1932. A young maid steps onto a train… and disappears. Her family writes to the only person they can...

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

珠玉の人間ドラマ×絶品グルメ小説第２弾 犬森祥子が離婚をきっかけに「見守り屋」の仕事を始めて約一年。気づけば、小三の娘と会えないまま半年が経つ。元夫が再婚して以来、面会させてもらえなかったのだ。

“An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. The inspiration for the hit Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. “One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade.” —Associated Press On the night he...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami' – Haruki Murakami 'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' – The Times A heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the...

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—a "witty, wise, and heartfelt novel" (Washington Post) about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the...

Don't miss the BRAND NEW page-turning instalment in the brilliant, BESTSELLING Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery series by T.A. Williams. A gripping murder mystery set in beautiful Florence featuring a retired DCI and his loyal companion, Oscar.🐶 Even angels can have a dark side... As the...

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.