Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award, was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold over two and a half million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her latest novel to be translated into English, The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, is also due to be published globally. Other books coming soon in English include Hot Chocolate on Thursday, Matcha Cafe on Monday and Talking in a Moonlit Forest. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.