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
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
£12.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for December 2020.
The Weather Handbook, 4th Edition
£16.99
The Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
The Lancastria Tragedy: Sinking and Cover-Up: June 1940
£14.99
On 15 June 1940, the British Admiralty launched Operation Ariel – a rescue effort in western France that followed the Dunkirk evacuations. Over the course of 10 days, Allied ships took terrible risks to snatch more than 500,000 civilian refugees and British soldiers from the grasp of advancing German forces.
Dunkirk Evacuation Operation Dynamo: Nine Days that Saved an Army
£15.99
This image-led title was produced to mark the 80th anniversary of the remarkable evacuation of more than a third of a million troops from the Normandy beaches. It highlights the ‘brilliant impromptu organisation’ to assemble a fleet of ferries, fishing vessels, coasters and other small craft to carry out the rescue work over a frantic nine-day period from 27 May to 4 June 1940.
Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars
£35.00
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for November 2020. This meticulously researched and very well-produced book examines the fate of many scores of ships seized from the losing sides in both world wars.
The Ocean Dove
£9.99
Here’s a very credible thriller that demonstrates just how vulnerable the industry would be to a maritime 9/11-style attack.
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 SS Terra Nova (1884-1943)
£20.00
SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this memorable ship, built in wood to enable flexibility in the ice, continued until 1943, when she sank off Greenland.
Garnet and Petunia: the Russians
£6.99
Captain William Gilbert is back with his latest self-published works of fiction, a racy detective trilogy set in the seedy back streets and strip joints of Bangkok.
The Seafarer’s Mind: The Questions I've Always Wanted to Ask
£5.00
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for September 2020.
Merchant Navy Survival Guide: Survive and thrive on your first ship
£6.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for September 2020. It is a compact introduction to commercial seafaring that all aspiring maritime professionals should read.
A Guide to Port and Terminal Management
£50.00
By Captain Bill Chalmers, FCIS