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31 books about Madeira tagged “Funchal”.
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Travel & Walking Guides
English · 2025 edition
A compact current guide to Madeira with curated sights, food and drink recommendations, three short-trip itineraries, practical advice and overview maps covering Funchal, the rest of the island and Porto Santo.
Travel & Walking Guides
With selection notes
English · 2025 edition
The listed 2025 edition of Lonely Planet’s compact pocket guide to Madeira, with itineraries and coverage of Funchal, the north coast, east Madeira and Porto Santo.
Fiction & Literature
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.
Memoir & Living
English · 2023 edition
A travel memoir blending poetry, prose, diaries and photographs, told through the eyes of a Portuguese-Canadian rediscovering his roots across Funchal, Câmara de Lobos, Curral das Freiras and beyond.
Memoir & Living
English · 2020 edition
Inspired by a 1909 classic, Tony Powell — who divides his time between the UK and Madeira — introduces 21st-century island life: Funchal, the mountains, holy days and the world-famous gardens, contrasting the Madeira of 1909 with today.
Travel & Walking Guides
With selection notes
German · 2025 edition
Susanne Lipps’s German-language DuMont travel guide to Madeira, with regional chapters, essays, selected addresses and tours. The third edition (2025) has 300 pages, eight city plans, 18 tour maps and a separate travel map.
History & Culture
English · 2007 edition
A hardcover history of Madeira embroidery produced by the Bordal house in Funchal (English translation), documenting the origins, techniques and cultural significance of the island’s famous whitework.
Fiction & Literature
English · 2012 edition
Tech journalist Karl Lustig travels to Madeira to lecture at the university and deliver military microchips — and stumbles onto a dangerous puzzle hidden in the chipset. A techno-thriller set largely on the island.
Fiction & Literature
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.
Fiction & Literature
With selection notes
Portuguese · 1992 edition
The acclaimed debut novel (in Portuguese) by Funchal journalist Helena Marques, set in late-19th-century Funchal — the Vaz de Lacerda family and its women across generations. Winner of the Portuguese Writers’ Association Grand Prize.
Fiction & Literature
With selection notes
Portuguese · 2014 edition
The collected poems of Funchal-born Herberto Helder (1930–2015), widely regarded as one of the greatest Portuguese poets of the late 20th century.
Fiction & Literature
Portuguese · 2015 edition
A hybrid prose-and-verse work in which the Funchal-born poet Herberto Helder speaks of his native island of Madeira and his European wanderings.
Fiction & Literature
Portuguese · 2015 edition
Herberto Helder’s principal book of prose fiction (first published 1963) — short narratives tracing a man’s steps around his own existence in poetically transcendent fragments.
Fiction & Literature
Portuguese · 2004 edition
A prize-winning poetry collection by Funchal-born poet José Agostinho Baptista, awarded the Portuguese PEN Club and APE poetry prizes in 2004.
Fiction & Literature
Portuguese · 2000 edition
A volume gathering much of the verse of Funchal-born poet José Agostinho Baptista, including earlier collections such as Morrer no Sul.
Fiction & Literature
Portuguese · 2016 edition
A novel by Funchal-born writer Ana Teresa Pereira on identity, memory and marriage — winner of the 2017 Oceanos Prize for Portuguese-language literature.
History & Culture
English · 2009 edition
A photographic history of Aquila Airways, whose flying boats carried passengers between Southampton and Funchal from 1949 until the final flight in 1958.
Fiction & Literature
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.
Travel & Walking Guides
French · 2026 edition
The popular French Routard guide to Madeira — thematic and geographic itineraries, addresses for all budgets, maps and a selection of the island’s best walks.
Travel & Walking Guides
French · 2025 edition
Lonely Planet’s French pocket guide for short stays on Madeira — neighbourhood walks, highlights and a pull-out map.
Travel & Walking Guides
Spanish · 2024 edition
The Spanish Lonely Planet “De cerca” pocket guide to Madeira — curated highlights, neighbourhood walks, itineraries and a pull-out map.
Travel & Walking Guides
Italian · 2023 edition
The Italian Lonely Planet/EDT pocket guide to Madeira — a pull-out map, curated highlights and itineraries.
Travel & Walking Guides
Polish · 2024 edition
The Polish-language Lonely Planet Pocket guide to Madeira (Pascal) — curated highlights, itineraries and a pull-out map.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2021 edition
The first in the atmospheric German “Madeira-Krimi” series — melancholy Comissário Torres and a German crime writer investigate when a hiker is murdered with poisoned Madeira honey-cake.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2022 edition
The second Comissário Torres “Madeira-Krimi” — crime writer Laura Flemming returns to the island to write and is again drawn into a murder.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2025 edition
A German crime-series opener: Rodrigo “Figo” Figueira, once a celebrated detective in Germany, returns broken to his native Madeira and must solve his first case there.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2017 edition
The German original of the Comissário Avila series — the Funchal homicide chief’s first case (translated into English as “Madeira Grave”).
Fiction & Literature
German · 2019 edition
Comissário Avila’s second case: as an Atlantic storm bears down, the body of a tourist washes up in Funchal harbour.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2020 edition
The third Comissário Avila “Madeira-Krimi”, set again in Funchal and across the flower island.
Fiction & Literature
German · 2016 edition
A cosy “Madeira-Krimi”: Hamburg café owner Pauline Boysen plans a walking-and-snorkelling holiday on Madeira and stumbles into a murder along the levadas.
Fiction & Literature
German · 1997 edition
The German edition of Helena Marques’s prize-winning “O Último Cais” — a saga of bold women in 19th-century Madeira, based on her great-grandfather’s logbook.