Topic

Historical novel

2 books about Madeira tagged “historical novel”.

Cover of O Último Cais
📖 Fiction & Literature

O Último Cais

Helena Marques · 1992 Portuguese

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.

Cover of Der Ruf des schwimmenden Gartens
📖 Fiction & Literature

Der Ruf des schwimmenden Gartens

Tara Haigh · 2022 German

A historical saga: in 1914 a Bremen lung specialist takes up a post helping build a German hospital on Madeira, the “floating garden of the Atlantic”.

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