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
£38.99
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.
Titanic Legacy The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy
£25.00
Book of the Month June 2025. The book is currently reprinted. Stock is expected middle or end of June 2025!!!
Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort
£15.29
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for July 2025. Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort : The Man Behind the Beaufort Scale
Irish Sea Lime Trade
£15.99
Book of the Month August 2025. The book is expected to be released on 15th June 2025.
Glasgow Harbour
£19.99
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.
From Ship to Shore and a Whole Lot More
£14.50
Illustrated memoir of the transgender maritime professional Michelle Clarke about her life at sea and ashore.
Making Waves
£12.99
PR strategies to transform your maritime business
Titanic 'Iceberg Ahead'
£20.00
The author is well-known for his depth of research and his attention to detail, and in a new style of format, he has selected fifty people involved in the disaster, and by using their specific eyewitness accounts he has managed to make the confusing situation much clearer, making it possible for the reader to experience the dreadful events as they unfolded. The book also includes biographical tributes to the fifty people, who came from all walks of life and geographical regions, telling who they were, their experiences during the disaster, and what happened to those who were fortunate enough to survive.
Mysteries and Sea Monsters : Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.4)
£10.99
Before the scrutiny of scientific Enlightenment and Age of Reason, in the eighteenth century, ghost ships and oceanic monsters were the stuff of superstition, myth and legend to explain the inexplicable, to enthral the imagination - and enliven the unimaginable.
Italian Liners of the 1960s : The Costanzi Quartet
£15.99
'Functionality is never an excuse for poor design' said the naval architect Nicolo Costanzi, a man whose synthesis of engineering and artistry created practical ships of sublime beauty.
Water Gypsies: A History of Life on Britain's Rivers and Canals
£14.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for September 2021.
The Mayflower in Britain
£20.00
How an icon was made in London
Queen Elizabeth 2 : Ship of Legend
£22.00
A maritime icon, she well deserves yet another tribute!
Pilot Cutters Under Sail
£16.99
Pilots and Pilotage in Britain and Northern Europe
Bligh: Master Mariner
£16.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for August 2021.