Moon of Madness

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Tango in Madeira

Jim Williams

English · 2013 edition

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.

Fiction & Literature

Capture a Stranger

Lilian Peake

English · 1981 edition

Katherine Matthews marries Luis de Freitas believing he needs her money, only to discover — once living in his home on Madeira — that he had been deceiving her. A vintage Mills & Boon romance set on the island.

Fiction & Literature

Joseph Barnaby

Susan Roebuck

English · 2018 edition

A horse farrier who loses everything by standing on principle flees a vendetta and escapes to Madeira, finding work on a small farm reachable only by boat — and unexpected community and romance. A contemporary tale steeped in the island’s landscape.

Fiction & Literature

Last April Fair

Betty Neels

English · 2011 edition

Nurse Phyllida Cresswell is stranded on Madeira when a job abroad goes wrong, and the dashing Dutchman Pieter van Sittardt comes to her rescue. A classic Harlequin/Mills & Boon romance set on the island.