This book takes a look at the varying commercial shipping that has worked on the Thames since 2000. Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for April 2020.
This book features passenger craft such as cruise ships, ferries and heritage shipping that have worked on the Thames since 2000, and is a companion volume to the author's book on cargo shipping. Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for April 2020.
A thriller that ranges from Cameroon to the Congo and South Africa, by way of the sea. This book weaves themes of racism, exploitation and transnational crime into its rags-to-riches yarn about an alchemist-like quest to create the world's biggest diamond from illegally mined materials.
The author brings to life the experience of seafaring as a cadet and junior officer in the 1960's as well as the realities of the justice system of the present day.
Cargoes : A Celebration of the Sea Through the Pen and the Paintbrush of John Masefield and Kenneth D Shoesmith. Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for March 2020.