Cover of Friends in Funchal
📖 Fiction & Literature

Friends in Funchal

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.

historical fiction1811 MadeiraFunchalRegency era
Author
KG Fleury
Edition year
2022
Publisher
The Book Guild
Language
English
ISBN-13
9781915352927
Find “Friends in Funchal” on Amazon →

Affiliate link · As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Price & availability shown on Amazon.

More in Fiction & Literature

Cover of Tango in Madeira
📖 Fiction & Literature

Tango in Madeira

Jim Williams · 2013

Set in Madeira after WWI, a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his family’s failing wine business as the island fills with real figures of the era — an exiled emperor, Agatha Christie at Reid’s Hotel, George Bernard Shaw learning to tango — and a murder draws him in.

Cover of Distant Music
📖 Fiction & Literature

Distant Music

Lee Langley · 2001

A love story spanning six centuries, opening in 1429 on a Madeira consumed by a fire that has blazed for seven years, as a peasant girl and a Jewish boy off a Portuguese ship meet — their thwarted love recurring across generations.

Cover of Past Caring
📖 Fiction & Literature

Past Caring

Robert Goddard · 2008

Robert Goddard’s bestselling debut. At a lush villa on Madeira, a disgraced historian is hired to investigate the mysterious 1910 downfall of a former British cabinet minister — a quest that uncovers secrets and deaths still haunting a family.

Cover of The Malady in Madeira
📖 Fiction & Literature

The Malady in Madeira

Ann Bridge · 2012

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.