Nautilus Bookshop

Welcome to the Nautilus Bookshop – a collection of great reads to enjoy at sea and ashore. A partnership between Marine Society and Nautilus International, the bookshop stocks recent releases on a range of maritime topics, including ship histories, seafarer memoirs, studies of the Merchant Navy in wartime and even the occasional nautical novel.

The Book of the Month will feature a special discount during its respective month. All the books here have been reviewed in the Nautilus Telegraph, and new titles are added each month.

If you have a recently-published maritime book that you would like the Nautilus Telegraph to consider for review, please email: telegraph@nautilusint.org

Featured products

200 Years of Lifesaving at Sea

£14.99

The Book of the month June 2024. With over 100 fascinating images from Mirrorpix, one of the world’s biggest photo libraries, 200 Years of Lifesaving at Sea is a testament to the brave folk who sailed and continue to sail towards danger, rather than away from it.

One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History

£22.99

In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives. The book of the Month June 2024.

Sailing Through Life...

£18.99

Throughout the telling of Ardley’s tales, his story, sailing with family and friends, country walking and living life, he has maintained a normality.

Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure

£32.39

The Book of the month May 2024. It provides a vivid account that will appeal to academics interested in the study of work, workplace change and time. It is accessibly written and will be enjoyed by readers interested in the contemporary shipping industry, and the life and work of seafarers.

Shipwrecks of the Solent

£15.99

Jones reveals the stories behind the shipping disasters in the Solent.

The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700: How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy

£35.00

This book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress.

Allied Convoys to Northern Russia, 1941–1945 : Politics, Strategy and Tactics

£25.00

Joint book of the Book of the Month April 2024. This carefully researched work providing an overview of the strategic factors dominating the costly yet war-winning Arctic convoy programme will be welcomed by experts and laymen alike.

Arctic Convoys : Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas

£20.00

Joint book of the Book of the Month April 2024. Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes

Bonnie Geordie : The Life of Tycoon Sir George Elliot

£22.99

George Elliot was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings as a pit boy in England's north-east to become one of the biggest coal owners in the world.

Pulling Together: The Making of a Global Maritime Trade Union

£19.99

The Book of the Month January 2024. This in-depth history will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in maritime or trade union history. The history of Nautilus is also of relevance to all unions organising in an increasingly globalised and unstable labour market. Ilustrated with 50b/w and 20 colour photos.

Short Story, Verse, Commentary

£9.99

Poetry. Entertaining and horizon-expanding short stories, poems and observations.

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Wartime Standard Ships

£25.00

This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many merchant ships that not only contributed to their country’s war efforts, but were also responsible for a cultural change in world shipbuilding that would lay the foundations for the post-war industry.