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The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.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
Of Ships and Shoes and Scotland
£22.99
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for December 2022.
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945
£20.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for November 2022.
Ship Models from the Age of Sail
£30.00
Building and Enhancing Commercial Kits
Skipper's Cockpit Weather Guide
£12.99
The book is a useful primer or overview for RYA Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore students by following the contents of the course in clear, practical language, with diagrams, photographs, explanations and bulleted lists.
Thames Shipping in Colour
£21.95
This 96 page full colour hardback pictorial album by popular maritime author Andrew Wiltshire takes a nostalgic journey through time along London's maritime highway, from the 1960s to the present day.
Why the Titanic was Doomed
£20.00
Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed by her owner, doomed by her designers, doomed by the men who sailed her -- doomed even by her sister ship.
Glimpses of the Falklands War
£20.00
BMMHS celebrates 5th Anniversary in 2024 - 10% discount in May.
How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century
£25.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for September 2022
In the Shadow of Piper Alpha
£9.99
It is a sensitive and compelling exploration of the experience of trauma for the survivor and for those closest to them.
Isle of Man Steam Packet Heyday
£19.95
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for August 2022.
Notable Points in the Design History of the Doxford Opposed Piston Marine Oil Engine
£25.00
This beautiful book was researched and written by John Jordan and the late Rodney Cartridge who had been Doxford apprentices, designers, test and marine engineers, bringing their own perspective of the development of the engine covering a large proportion of the lifetime of the oil engine design and production, from 1910 to 1985.
PS Ryde
£14.95
A new publication being sold in support of the Medway Queen Preservation Society. This book has been written by well known author of Medway Queen books, Richard Halton.