Reid’s Hotel

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.

History & Culture

Madeira: A Guide Book of Useful and Varying Information

William Reid

English · original edition 1891

A practical Victorian guidebook to Madeira compiled by William Reid, founder of the celebrated Reid’s Hotel, gathering useful information for visitors to the island.