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
QE2: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
£25.00
Through words penned by passionate QE2 travellers and with tribute stories from captains, crew and guests, a wide selection of carefully selected photographs bring this wonderful ship to life.
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel
£15.99
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel brings all of the salt-stained heritage, courage and tenacity into one colourful and highly readable volume; maritime history is in our blood and this book will enrich it.
Atlantic Container Line 1967 - 2017: A 50 Year Journey of Innovative Excellence
£10.00
Atlantic Container Line was a pioneer in the cargo revolution of the 1960s and this book captures the story spanning over the last 50 years.
The Shipwreck Hunter
£13.99
A lifetime of extraordinary discoveries on the ocean floor. Expertise that helped find the Derbyshire.
Elements of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy (Third Edition)
£35.00
A well-known textbook for students preparing for Officer of the Watch qualifications and maritime degrees.
Wartime Standard Ships
£25.00
This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many merchant ships that not only contributed to their country’s war efforts, but were also responsible for a cultural change in world shipbuilding that would lay the foundations for the post-war industry.
The Aberdeen Line
£25.00
George Thompson Jnr's Incomparable Shipping Line
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
£8.99
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?'
The Port of Dover Through Time
£15.99
By Ian Collard
Mistress of Science
£20.00
The story of the remarkable Janet Taylor, pioneer of sea navigation.
Into The Raging Sea
£9.99
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Looking Back at Container Ships
£5.00
By Andrew Wiltshire