In Hiding

Fiction & Literature

Heart of the Storm

Rexanne Becnel

English · 2015 edition

Bookish heiress Eliza Thoroughgood takes her young cousin to the misty island of Madeira to recuperate — and the pair are taken captive aboard the ship of rogue captain Cyprian Dare. A historical romance set partly on Madeira and at sea.

Fiction & Literature

On Leaving Paradise

Frank Hercules

English · 1980 edition

An elegant satirical fable following Johnny de Paria and his entourage as they flee Trinidad by ocean liner for England — docking at Madeira, where a richly comic set piece unfolds among the island’s society.

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Distant Music

Lee Langley

English · 2003 edition

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.

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Past Caring

Robert Goddard

English · 2008 edition

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.