Kirsty Manning

Kirsty Manning
Author

‘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

“Ripe to be plucked for a screen adaption …

mouth-watering, passionate and admirable.”

—Australian Women’s Weekly

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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About Kirsty

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

Kirsty grew up in northern New South Wales, Australia and has degrees in literature and communications. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her around the globe.

Kirsty lives in Melbourne. Together with her husband she is a partner in the award-winning Melbourne wine bar Bellota and the Prince Wine Store in Melbourne and Sydney.

 

From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history … to be found in an Australian country shed in 2019.

The Hidden Book. Available in bookstores now.

Out Now

 

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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