Kirsty Manning
The Hidden Book The Paris Mystery The French Gift The Lost Jewels The Song of the Jade Lily / The Jade Lily The Midsummer Garden
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Kirsty Manning
International Bestselling Author

Kirsty Manning
Author

International bestselling author of historical fiction set across Europe, Australia, and Asia.

‘With breadth and intelligence, this exquisite novel

portrays a resilient community and a

secret kept to protect another.’

—Publishers Weekly (USA)

‘Meticulous research, stories with social importance, pioneering characters

and effortless flitting from one epoch and city to another underpin

Kirsty Manning’s cut-above historical fiction novels.’

– Australian Women’s Weekly

“A fascinating, charming novel, deft and moving.”

—Good Reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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About Kirsty

Kirsty Manning is the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Mystery, The French Gift, The Lost Jewels, and The Jade Lily (published in North America and the UK as The Song of the Jade Lily). Her historical novels appear in Australia, New Zealand, North America, the UK, and South Africa, and have been translated into German, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, Serbian, and other languages.

Her Charlie James mysteries follow an Australian journalist through 1930s Paris. Earlier novels include The Hidden Book, inspired by a true wartime story uncovered in rural Australia.

Kirsty grew up in northern New South Wales and holds degrees in literature and communications. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her around the globe. She lives in Melbourne, where she and her husband are partners in the award-winning wine bar Bellota and the Prince Wine Store in Melbourne and Sydney.

What you will find here

This site brings together Kirsty Manning's novels, international editions, media coverage, and reader resources. Her books move between wartime Europe, contemporary Australia, and the wine country she calls home, from The Jade Lily and The Lost Jewels to The Hidden Book and the Charlie James series that opens with The Paris Mystery.

Use the Books menu for synopses and purchase links. New readers can start with the Charlie James Mystery Series guide, which explains how The Paris Mystery opens the 1938 Paris thrillers. The International section lists translations and overseas editions. Media galleries collect interviews and press features, and the newsletter signup below keeps you informed about new releases and events.

 

The Paris Mystery opens the Charlie James series. Paris, 1938. Australian journalist Charlotte James arrives as Europe moves toward war, and a glittering summer party ends with murder.

Explore the novel, earlier books, and reader news on this site.

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In the Media

 

PRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN BOOK (AUS)

 
 

PRAISE FOR THE JADE LILY (AUS)

THE SONG OF THE JADE LILY (USA+UK)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PRAISE FOR THE LOST JEWELS

“What a keen eye for a brilliant story! Bestselling author Kirsty Manning sure knows how to breathe life and heart into historical events. Here, she takes a real-life historical story and weaves it into a compelling and multifaceted novel.”
— Better Reading
“Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel”
— Heather Morris, author of the bestselling THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
“Australian author Manning makes her American debut with this superb take on a lesser known aspect of WWII: some European Jews, fleeing from the Nazis, received asylum in Japanese-occupied Shanghai after being denied it elsewhere ... With breadth and intelligence, this exquisite novel portrays a resilient community and a secret kept to protect another.”
— Publisher's Weekly (USA)
“Detailed and evocative, a beautiful multi-layered story of friendship and love, family and loyalty. The smells, sounds and tastes of wartime Shanghai are richly re-imagined but it’s the courage of the young women - past and present — which makes the book unforgettable.”
— Sally Hepworth, international bestselling author of THE MOTHER-IN-LAW
““Meticulous research, stories with social importance, pioneering characters and effortless flitting from one epoch and city to another underpin Kirsty Manning’s cut-above historical fiction novels ””
— AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY
““Page-turning treasure hunt””
— SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
 
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