Fun family fable
Sea, Sand and Katrina by Sam Grant
Former seafarer Sam Grant – whose seafaring adventure books set in the 1960s have been reviewed in the Telegraph before – returns with a different kind of nautical novel.
This time it's a more relaxing journey: the story of a family that uses its inheritance to buy a dilapidated old paddle steamer.
We follow them as they return the ship to its former glory while living onboard, encountering all kinds of challenges along the way. It's a gentle maritime story with a hint of venerable radio soap opera The Archers about it.
Sea, Sand and Katrina
By Sam Grant
Self-published, £9.99
ISBN: 978 17879 20545
Buy this book in the Nautilus Bookshop
While you're there, why not browse the rest of the titles in our unique maritime bookshop, which sells all the books reviewed on these pages.
Buy nowMore Books
Memories of maritime adventures
Across the Edge: Pushing the Limits across Oceans and Continents by Peter ClutterbuckThe new memoir Across the Edge spans several decades of adventures sailing across oceans or crossing mountain ranges and continents.
Sort out your sextant skills
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2025, by Kendall CarterNew year, new astro navigation tables! The latest edition of this popular work gives a calendar showing where useful heavenly bodies will be each day in 2025, as well as guidance to help you practise navigating with your sextant using the sun and stars.
Well-researched history of mass maritime travel
Ocean Liners, by Anthony BurtonThe new title Ocean Liners has a great deal more to it than most books about liners and cruise ships, with plenty of technical content to appeal to an audience of maritime professionals.
True tale of a tragedy
Ship of Lost Souls, by Rod ScherRod Scher's Ship of Lost Souls reads like an adventure novel. Unfortunately, the book isn't fiction; it recounts the real-life 1906 grounding of the passenger liner Valencia and the deaths of over 170 people onboard.