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The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.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
£25.00
The QE2 in the Falklands War : Troopship to the South Atlantic Book of the Month May 2025
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners
£30.00
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners : An Exclusive Class from Imperator to QM2
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
On the Line: The Story of the Greenwich Meridian
£8.99
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is a powerful historic reminder of navigation and timekeeping. Home to the international measurements of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and Prime Meridian (0˚ longitude), the imaginary line that runs from Pole to Pole.
A Flight of Figureheads : From British Warships at The Box, Plymouth
£15.99
The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces each of the figureheads, giving details of its design, the ship for which it was carved and the actions it witnessed when serving in the Royal Navy.
Britain’s Last Invasion
£19.99
The Battle of Fishguard 1797
From Hunter to Hunted
£19.99
From Hunter to Hunted : The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939-1943
No Earthly Pole
£25.00
The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845.