Fiction, Comedy and DVDs

The almost forgotten craft of shifting large weights with brains instead of engines. Beginning with practical rules for moving like "Get the Ming v...

Animals sail their sailboats, go fishing, see big freighters, ride on an ocean liner, rescue capsized passengers, put out a barge fire, and live on...

By Erling Kagge This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarcti...

"Spectacular ... you can almost smell the surf between the pages." The Times"Five stars - if you take only one picture book away this summer, make ...

Settle in with Carruthers and Davies as they sail around the Frisian Islands in the Dulcibella discovering sinister invasion plots. Simon MacCork...

Find out about the largest mammal on the planet in this fun, informative, award-winning picture book, part of the Nature Storybooks series. Find ou...

A beautiful leather-bound collection of Jack London's stories. From hard-edged adventures in the Klondike territory to harrowing experiences on the...

In the lands of the north where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea...the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they ...

By John Steinbeck In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebra...

By Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin In the lands of the north where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is ve...

By Erskine Childers When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 sce...

A de-mobbed soldier returns home to his native Suffolk to find his family’s boat-building business in decline.  Can his yacht designs save the day ...

By W. E. Bowman An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite s...

'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'A selection of...

Feeling brave? Open up The Fearless Octopus Book! This beautifully written poetic story follows a very courageous octopus! Adventuring can be scary...

This is a book with no practical purpose whatsoever. As any fan of Dave's would probably guess, a book by him won't make you a better sailor, and i...

A picture book favourite, this is the dramatic and moving Cornish tale of a cat and a fisherman who brave the stormy seas to save their village. Th...

By Arthur Ransome John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy...

By J. D. McClatchy Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, ...

Edited by Eve Lacey Illustrated by Emma Wright Most of the poems in The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea feel timeless but not old fashioned. Those...

The seventh in a fantastic series of animal stories for younger readers by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted author Helen Peters, with ...

When old drunken sailor Billy Bones dies at the Admiral Benbow Inn, the innkeeper's son Jim Hawkins finds a map amongst his possessions. The local ...

By Arthur Ransome 'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself? The fo...

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above gro...