Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The bestselling international phenomenon, now wrapped up in a gorgeous, special festive gift edition - the perfect stocking filler for a loved one. What would you do if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel in time.

In Before the coffee gets cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to:

• confront the man who left them
• receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer’s
• see their sister one last time-
• meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.  
  

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . .

Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

Format: Paperback

Published: 8th October 2026