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: [email protected]
Featured products
Hello Sailor! The hidden history of gay life at sea
£38.00
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans.
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.
Tugs and Towing Around Britain
£15.99
The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.
Ocean Liners: A New History
£25.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for January 2025
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2025
£27.00 £30.00
10% OFF. This is the established book of annual astro-navigation tables compiled specifically for the needs of boaters.
Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia
£25.00
NOT YET PUBLISHED. EXPECTED IN FEBRUARY 2025. The Book of the Month February 2025.
Titanic Legacy The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy
£25.00
Book of the Month June 2025
Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography: Life of A Greyhound
£36.00 £40.00
The Book of the Month April 2025.
The QE2 in the Falkands War
£22.50
Book of the Month May 2025 The QE2 in the Falklands War : Troopship to the South Atlantic
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners
£30.00
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners : An Exclusive Class from Imperator to QM2
The British Lighthouse Trail: A Regional Guide
£18.99
The product of remarkable labour of love, this very handy guide for existing and aspiring pharologists provides vital visiting details for no fewer than 612 lighthouses.
The Outlaw Ocean : Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier - Paperback
£12.99
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4
£20.00
Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 4
They Once Were Shipbuilders: Leith-Built Ships, Volume 1
£16.99
Author R. O. Neish Published April 2020
Very Ordinary Seaman
£15.00
Bill Mallalieu was a journalist before going to sea, and his writing experience is put to good use in this pacey, vibrant tale based on his own experiences, full of lively characters and punchy, irreverent dialogue.
Bligh: Master Mariner
£16.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for August 2021.
Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica
£25.00
Anyone interested in studying maritime history should be happy to read this gripping and scholarly study of Captain James Cook’s 18th century voyages in search of Antarctica.
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
£15.29 £16.99
Congratulations to David Abulafia, whose work The Boundless Sea has won the Mountbatten Award for Best Book at the Maritime Foundation’s annual Maritime Media Awards.
The Man Who Discovered Antarctica: Edward Bransfield Explained
£25.00
Aims to make Bransfield's name better known, claiming to tell for the first time 'the full story of this remarkable man and his historic journey.'
Transatlantic Liners 1950-1970
£25.00
An illustrated reference book to gladden the hearts of mid-20th century liner geeks. Reviewed by the Nautilus Telegraph.
Viola : The Life and Times of a Hull Steam Trawler
£12.00
Deep in southern latitudes, in a desolate corner of Cumberland Bay on the east coast of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, hard by the rotting quays of the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken and almost within a stone’s throw of the grave of Sir Ernest Shackleton, lie three forsaken steam ships: rusting remnants of our industrial past, unique survivals from a vanished age of steam at sea.
After the Lost Franklin Expedition
£14.99
Lady Franklin and John Rae by Peter Baxter