🧭 Travel & Walking Guides
Fodor’s Essential Portugal
Fodor’s full-colour guide to Portugal with a dedicated chapter on Madeira and Funchal — a current, in-print option for travellers combining the island with the mainland.
Topic
Madeira
23 books about Madeira tagged “Madeira”.
🏛️ History & Culture
Emigration and the Sea
A wide-ranging account of how exploration, empire and migration shaped the Portuguese diaspora, including the Madeirans who settled in places such as Guyana, Bermuda, Hawaii, Venezuela and South Africa.
🧭 Travel & Walking Guides
Moon Portugal
Moon’s comprehensive Portugal guide by long-time resident Carrie-Marie Bratley, with dedicated in-depth coverage of Madeira and the Azores, plus itineraries and practical planning.
🧭 Travel & Walking Guides
Frommer’s Portugal
Frommer’s complete Portugal guide by Algarve-based experts, covering the country from the Minho to Madeira’s rocky shores, with opinionated reviews and suggested itineraries including Madeira.
🍲 Food & Cooking
Portuguese Home Cooking
Authentic Portuguese home recipes from the Alentejo plus the Azores and Madeira — salads, garlic-and-wine braises, seafood, breads and desserts — with full-colour photography.
📖 Fiction & Literature
O Último Cais
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
A Deusa Sentada
Helena Marques’s second novel (in Portuguese), continuing the search-for-roots theme of O Último Cais as two cousins travel in search of their family’s identity.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Poemas Completos
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
Photomaton & Vox
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
Os Passos em Volta
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
Esta Voz é Quase o Vento
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
Biografia
A volume gathering much of the verse of Funchal-born poet José Agostinho Baptista, including earlier collections such as Morrer no Sul.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Karen
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
The Portuguese in Hawaii
A centennial volume documenting the 20,000+ people from Madeira, the Azores and Portugal who migrated to work Hawaii’s sugar plantations (1878–1913), with essays and historical photographs.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Das Haus auf der Blumeninsel
A young woman flees to her family’s lighthouse house on Madeira and, among old letters, uncovers the story of two sisters who loved the same man between the wars.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Der Ruf des schwimmenden Gartens
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”.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Das Lied der Sturmvögel
After a devastating loss, a Berlin journalist escapes to the flower island of Madeira, where a blind painter and a conservationist open new perspectives on life.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Raquels Töchter
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.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Sonnenküsse auf Madeira
A romance: after a painful break-up, sommelière Charlie starts over on her dream island of Madeira and clashes with her charming new boss at a vineyard.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Island Hearts 2 – Isabel
A short German romance: successful writer Manuel returns to his native Madeira after fourteen years and reunites with Isabel, now an orchid gardener rooted in the island.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Küsse am Madeira Drive
A German romance interweaving a woman’s new beginning with a historical thread about Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s stay on Madeira.
📖 Fiction & Literature
Eine Begegnung auf Madeira
A German novella: in an airport lounge the narrator notices a woman whose movements stir memories — and on Madeira, in the same hotel, a gripping story unfolds.
🏡 Memoir & Living
Frühstück mit Walen
A German memoir of how a first Madeira holiday became the dream of island life — levada walks and the everyday hurdles of moving abroad, met with humour.