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The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.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
c/o Cunard House : 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3
£18.99
Volume 4 of the acclaimed Leith-built Ships series follows Ship Nos 495 to 535 built from 1965 until the eventual closure of the shipyard in 1984 by a government that was hell-bent on destroying British industry and breaking the powerful unions.
Queen Elizabeth 2 : Ship of Legend
£22.00
A maritime icon, she well deserves yet another tribute!
Pilot Cutters Under Sail
£16.99
Pilots and Pilotage in Britain and Northern Europe
Bligh: Master Mariner
£16.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for August 2021.
Flag Waves: House Flags from the National Maritime Museum
£20.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for December 2021.
Surviving the Arctic Convoys: The Wartime Memoirs of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell
£19.99
Nautilus Telegraph' s Book of the Month for November 2021.
Mariners’ Memorabilia Vol. 4
£12.00
A guide to the china of British shipping companies of the 19th and 20th centuries
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II - Volume I
£40.00
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II : Volume I: Fairmile Designs & US Submarine Chasers. Published April 2019.
What Ship, Where Bound? : A History of Visual Communication at Sea
£12.99
What Ship, Where Bound? takes its title from the familiar opening exchange of signals between passing ships, and celebrates the long history of visual communications at sea.
The World of the Seafarer
£44.99
Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry. It is an open-access book that you can download as a PDF or purchase a hard copy.
Management Level Stability
£45.00
For students undertaking marine examinations in IMO Model Course 7.01 and 7.02
Operational Level Stability for Deck and Engineer Officers
£40.00
For students undertaking marine examinations in IMO Model Course 7.03 and 7.04
Unlocking the World
£25.00
Unlocking the World : Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930