This is an oversized, slender softcover booklet with 44 pages. It includes photos, charts and photocopies of original 1912 news reports. As with his other self-published books, this one is available on both sides of the Atlantic.

November 3, 2003.
Journey to Titanic, by Roger Bansemer.
Bansemer is an accomplished artist and author who has already published many books, several of them with nautical themes. He became the 112th person to dive to the Titanic, and the first artist to have painted the wreck on site. This book chronicles his journey in a mixture paintings, photos, and digitally-painted images. It has 128 pages and comes in both hardcover and paperback editions.

The list price for the hardcover edition is $24.95, and $18.95 for the paperback version. Here is the link to the hardcover edition of Journey to Titanic on Barnes & Noble's website.

September 6, 2003.
The Incredible Quest to Find the Titanic, by Brad Matsen.
Originally slated to be released at the beginning of 2003, this new children's book has finally been released in September. It is a volume in the Incredible Deep-Sea Adventures series, for the 9 to 12 age group. It's a short, attractive hardcover book, with 48 pages, nicely illustrated thru-out with color photos & drawings. The book is selling for $18.95 on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com (although Amazon has the title wrong). Here is a link to The Incredible Quest on Barnes & Noble's website.

September 4, 2003.
Titanic’s Memorials Worldwide: Where They are Located, by Brian J. Ticehurst. The latest edition is now available.
The author has been constantly updating and expanding this immensely useful work for years. The latest printing, the 22nd, covers an incredible 1014 memorials in over 29 countries, and with 926 people named. It can be ordered directly from the author. The cost is just £5 Sterling or $8.00 - plus post and packing in the UK is £1.30 or $3.50 to everywhere else.

To get a copy, send your payment to the author:
Brian J. Ticehurst
1 Mardon Close
Swaythling
Southampton, SO18 2HP UK
You can also E-mail him at [email protected].

April 15, 2003.
The Last Log of the Titanic, by David Brown. Softcover edition now available.
David Brown's compelling re-examination of the mechanics of the disaster is one of the most important new works to be published in recent years. It won the Titanic Book of the Year Award© for 2000. The book is now available in an attractive, oversized paperback format. It should be available on any of the major on-line sites and at your local bookstore by the time you read this.

April 13, 2003.
Ein Schiff unter Anklage, the German edition of A Ship Accused, by Senan Molony.
Foreign langage titles are really beyond the scope of this site for the most part, but I was so impressed with this book, as well as the production values of the publisher's Murdoch biography, that I felt an exception was definitely in order. As mentioned a while back on the Upcoming Book News page, Senan's excellent defense of Captain Lord and the Californian, A Ship Accused, was being translated into German. That German language edition has just been published. What's more, it is in hardback, a treat us English speaking bookoholics were denied! Susanne Störmer's publishing house has released the book through her website, Stormbreakers. Here are the details for Ein Schiff unter Anklage on Susanne's Stormbreaker website.

April 4, 2003.
Ghosts of the Abyss. A Journey Into the Heart of the Titanic, by Don Lynch, Ken Marschall & James Cameron.
The most eagerly awaited Titanic book in a decade is finally here. James Cameron went back to the wreck of the Titanic to shoot a 40 minute IMAX movie, going deeper into the wreck than anyone else has ever gone before. The IMAX movie will be in theaters shortly, and this book is the story of that expedition and film. It is a hardcover book with 144 pages. It is full of breathtaking color images of the Titanic as she looks today. There are also many photos and recreations of the ship as she looked during her maiden voyage.

The availability of the book is still a bit spotty. Most of the major on-line bookstores now show it as in stock, but many of the major brick & mortar bookstores do not have it on their shelves yet, although others do. In any event, even if a store near you doesn't have it today, be assured they will have it in-stock very shortly.

Titanic: Ghosts of the Abyss, by Mireille Majoor & Ken Marschall.
There is also a children's version of the above title. This one also tells the story of the James Cameron IMAX expedition, but its focus is for younger readers. It is also in hardcover, but much shorter, only 48 pages. But it comes with 3-D glasses and more than 35 3-D images that children, and yes adults too, are going to love. This one is available on all the major on-line bookstores, and will be available shortly at your local bookstore, and might even be in-stock now depending on the store and your location in the country.

March 18, 2003.
Titanic, Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure (Secret Worlds), by John Malam.
This is a children's book for the 9 to 12 age bracket. It is a volume in the popular DK Secret Worlds series. This work looks at the history of underwater exploration, and salvage dives for both archaeology and treasure. There is one full chapter on the Titanic, plus the disaster is mentioned in passing in several other chapters as well.

It is a small book with 96 pages, and is available in both hardcover and softcover versions. It is color illustrated on most pages, often with the text superimposed over the art. It has an attractive, if inaccurate, color painting of the bow section of Titanic on the front cover. The book should be available at most major bookstores and on-line book sites as well, although none of the on-line sites list Malam as the author. If you want to search for it yourself, your best bet is to look for "Titanic Secret Worlds" in the title field. The hardcover is selling for around $11, the softback for around $6. Here is the link to the paperback version of Titanic Secret Worlds on Amazon.com's website.

January 27, 2003.
Titanic Passages. Editor’s Selection of 100 Pages from the White Star Journal, by Senan Molony.
Yep, the prolific Mr. Molony has published yet another book. The man's output is just incredible, though he swears this is going to be his last book for quite some time to come. I'm not convinced, but we shall see. This book contains a series of articles he has written over the last few years. These articles first appeared in the Irish Titanic Historical Society’s quarterly magazine, the White Star Journal, which Molony has edited for some years now. There are about 65 articles all together on a whole spectrum of topics as diverse as a piece about Captain Rostron’s celebrated sighting of a sea serpent to the discovery of a photograph believed to be the very last one ever taken of Titanic.

This book has the same format and size as his Garbled Titantic. It is 104 pages long, and profusely illustrated with photographs thru-out. It has a wraps binding with a clear acetate front cover. As with his other self-published books, this one is available on both sides of the Atlantic.