Chipset

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

The Malady in Madeira

Ann Bridge

English · 2012 edition

The seventh Julia Probyn mystery (reissued by Bloomsbury Reader). Recently widowed, Julia arrives on Madeira with her infant son and uncovers strange, sinister events that may hold a clue to her husband’s death — rich in the scenes of the island.

Fiction & Literature

Friends in Funchal

KG Fleury

English · 2022 edition

Set in 1811, a Quaker doctor leaves his London practice for Funchal hoping Madeira’s climate will cure his consumption — a vivid depiction, with nods to Dickens and Austen, of an island under military occupation and the people he meets.

Fiction & Literature

Madeira Grave

Joyce Summer

English · 2022 edition

The English translation of the first Comissário Avila “Madeira-Krimi” — a young woman is found dead at the island’s elite golf club, and a detective hunts a killer among Madeira’s high society.

Fiction & Literature

The Glass of Time

Michael Cox

English · 2009 edition

A gothic sequel to The Meaning of Night, in which orphan Esperanza Gorst goes undercover as a lady’s maid — and her own origins trace back to Funchal, Madeira, where part of the narrative is set.