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.
Titanic Legacy The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy
£22.50
Book of the Month June 2025. The book is currently reprinted. Stock is expected middle or end of June 2025!!!
c/o Cunard House : 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3
£18.99
Currently out of stock, reprint is expected in 3rd week in June 2025.
Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort
£16.99
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
Mariners’ Memorabilia Vol. 4
£12.00
A guide to the china of British shipping companies of the 19th and 20th centuries
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II - Volume I
£40.00
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II : Volume I: Fairmile Designs & US Submarine Chasers. Published April 2019.
What Ship, Where Bound? : A History of Visual Communication at Sea
£12.99
What Ship, Where Bound? takes its title from the familiar opening exchange of signals between passing ships, and celebrates the long history of visual communications at sea.
The World of the Seafarer
£44.99
Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry. It is an open-access book that you can download as a PDF or purchase a hard copy.
Management Level Stability
£45.00
For students undertaking marine examinations in IMO Model Course 7.01 and 7.02
Operational Level Stability for Deck and Engineer Officers
£40.00
For students undertaking marine examinations in IMO Model Course 7.03 and 7.04
Unlocking the World
£25.00
Unlocking the World : Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930
Reeds 9-Language Handbook
£11.99
The pocket dictionary for all sailors
Seamanship 2.0
£17.99
Everything you need to know to get yourself out of trouble at sea. Authors want to inspire small boatowners to improve their seamanship so they are able to help themselves in an emergency.
The Canal Guide: Britain's 55 Best Canals
£20.00
This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is.
Sea of Death: The Baltic, 1945
£20.00
Amid the turmoil of the dying days of the Second World War, a series of ships were sunk in the Baltic. These terrible disasters add up to be the greatest loss of life ever recorded at sea, but the stories of these ships have been lost from view. While everyone recognises the name Titanic, the names Cap Arcona, Goya, General von Steuben andThielbek draw little more than blank stares.
The Devil and the Dark Water
£9.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for May 2021.