Where to start

Reading lists

Hand-picked shelves drawn from the full catalogue — the shortest path to the right books for your Madeira.

The short shelf that gets you ready for the island — one great guide, the walks, the wine, a little history and a story to read on the plane.

Madeira is one of the world’s great walking islands. These are the guides that map its levadas, peaks and trails.

Five centuries of the world’s most indestructible wine — the standard references, the classics and the family histories.

From discovery, sugar and slavery to the British merchants and the emperor who died in exile here — the books that explain the island.

Novels and mysteries that unfold among the island’s cliffs, quintas and levadas — from gothic Funchal to Jazz-Age intrigue.

The laurisilva, the flowers, the seabirds and the whales — field guides and garden books for Madeira’s extraordinary nature.

When Madeira was the fashionable winter cure, travellers and invalids wrote it down. The 19th-century classics — now reprinted and collectable.

The island in its own language — the great Madeiran novelists and poets, the definitive histories, and the cookbooks straight from the source.

Murder among the levadas, the quintas and Funchal high society — the island has quietly become a favourite setting for crime fiction.