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
Diesels Afloat: The Essential Guide to Diesel Boat Engines
£18.99
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for March 2023.
Lochs of Scotland: The comprehensive guide to Scotland's most fabulous inland and sea lochs
£18.99
This stunning book showcases more than 50 of the most popular, interesting and beautiful, and is a perfect guide for anyone visiting or exploring Scotland, or wanting to find out about these iconic and breathtaking locations, sometimes sitting by spectacular coast and other times nestled in between towering mountains.
Irish Sea Ports on the River Mersey and River Dee
£15.99
Illustrated profusely throughout, this book tells the fascinating history of these hubs of business and activity.
River Thames Dockland Heritage
£15.99
London's docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the existing riverside wharves became too congested and pilfering became rife. Dock systems were built on both sides of the Thames.
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London During the 1940s – 1980s
£30.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for February 2023.
Maritime London: An Historical Journey in Pictures and Words
£30.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for January 2023.
Irish Sea Vehicle Ferries
£19.95
The First Eighty Years
Thames Shipping in Colour
£21.95
This 96 page full colour hardback pictorial album by popular maritime author Andrew Wiltshire takes a nostalgic journey through time along London's maritime highway, from the 1960s to the present day.
Why the Titanic was Doomed
£20.00
Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed by her owner, doomed by her designers, doomed by the men who sailed her -- doomed even by her sister ship.
Ship Models from the Age of Sail
£30.00
Building and Enhancing Commercial Kits
Of Ships and Shoes and Scotland
£22.99
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for December 2022.