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The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.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
U-Boat Assault on America
£25.00
Why the US was Unprepared for War in the Atlantic
The Titanic Expeditions by Eugene Nesmeyanov
£30.00
Diving to the Queen of the Deep 1985 - 2010
Otto Kretschmer by Lawrence Paterson
£25.00
The life of the Third Reich's highest scoring U-boat commander
British Paddle Steamers by John Megoran
£15.99
The Twilight Years
Taming the Atlantic
£25.00
The History of Man's Battle With the World's Toughest Ocean
Churchill's Thin Grey Line
£19.99
Nominated for the Maritime Foundation's 2018 Mountbatten Award for Best Book
Ocean Liners: An Illustrated History
£30.00
By Peter Newall
Looking Back at Container Ships
£5.00
By Andrew Wiltshire
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
£8.99
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?'
The Aberdeen Line
£25.00
George Thompson Jnr's Incomparable Shipping Line
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.
Elements of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy (Third Edition)
£35.00
A well-known textbook for students preparing for Officer of the Watch qualifications and maritime degrees.