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The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.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

Queen Anne: A Photographic Journey

£25.00

c/o Cunard House : 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3

£18.99

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The Adlard Coles Book of Mediterranean Cruising, 5th edition

£25.00

The perfect companion for anyone who wants to cruise the Mediterranean, whether on their own yacht or chartering.

British Passenger Liners in Colour: The 1950s. '60s and Beyond

£27.50

British Passenger Liners in Colour is just that: a look back at a time when the British-flag passenger fleet spanned the world from Southampton to South America.

ShipCraft 30: Bounty : HM Armed Vessel, 1787

£16.99

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships.

William Schaw Lindsay : Victorian Entrepreneur

£25.00

This book is based on the unpublished journals of William Schaw Lindsay (1815-1877) housed in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. From rags to riches. Born in Scotland and orphaned by the age of 10, Lindsay ran away to sea at the age of 16.