Association of Lighthouse Keepers
Association of Lighthouse Keepers
The following books have been published over the last few years.
Some may no longer be in print but may be available to buy on the second-hand market or through online booksellers.
ALK East Anglian Officer Patrick Tubby has a number of second-hand lighthouse books for sale.
For an up-to-date sales list, contact Patrick Tubby.
| A Brief Atlas of the lighthouses at the end of the world | Gozalez Macias | Picador (2023) |
| Lighthouse Accommodation UK and Ireland | Joy Tubby | Joy Tubby (2025) |
| The Lonely Lighthouse Bogle | Lindsey Millar | Secret Doors Press (2023) |
| The Japan Lights: On the Trail of the Scot Who Lit Up Japan’s Coast | Iain Maloney | Tippermuir Books (2023) |
| Rock Lighthouses of Britain and Ireland | Christopher Nicholson | Whittles (2023) |
| The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast | Jennifer Lucy Allan | White Rabbit (2021) |
| Findlay’s Lighthouse Lists and the Loss of the Margaret Smith | Ian and Andrew Hills | Independent (2020) |
| The British Lighthouse Trail | Sarah Kerr | Whittles (2019) |
| The Lighthouse Story | Nicholas Leach | The History Press (2019) |
| Sentinels of the Sea: A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past | R G Grant | Thames and Hudson Ltd (2018) |
| Seashaken Houses | Tom Nancollas | Particular Books (2018) |
| Lighthouses of England and Wales | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | The History Press (2018) |
| Ancient Lighthouses | Ken Trethewey | Jazz-Fusion Books (2018) |
| Following The Lights | Peter Gellatly | Airdrie Print Service (2017) |
| A Natural History of Lighthouses | John A Love | Whittles (2014) |
| Light Through A Lens | Neil Jones & Paul Ridgeway | Adlard Coles Nautical (2014) |
| Lighthouses | Lynn F Pearson | Shire Publications Ltd (2013) |
| Ireland’s Lighthouses – A Photo Essay | John Eagle | The Collins Press (2010) |
| Northern Lights – The Age of Scottish Lighthouses | Alison Morrison-Low | National Museums Scotland (2010) |
| Postcards From The Edge | Christoper Nicholson | Whittles (2010) |
| Lighthouses Construction & Illumination (orig pub 1881) | Thomas Stevenson | |
| Lighthouses of the World | Marie-Haude Arzur | |
| Rock Lighthouses of Britain | Christopher Nicholson | |
| Lighthouses | Jackum Brown | |
| Lighthouses Towers of the Sea | Charles Payton | |
| The World’s Greatest Lighthouses | Annamaria Lilla Mariotti | |
| Lighthouses of Trinity House | Richard Woodman and Jane Wilson | |
| North Atlantic Lighthouses | Jean Guichard | |
| Beacon on the Rock | Peter Williams | |
| Francis Frith’s Lighthouses | David Wilkinson and Martin Boyle | |
| Lost Sounds | Alan Renton | |
| Lighthouses of the Atlantic | Philip Plisson | |
| Guiding Lights | Peter Ashley |
| Lighthouses of Wales | Warren Kovach | Amberley Publishing (2025) |
| The Beacon Bike | Edward Peppitt | Ballon View Publishing (2024) |
| The Lighthouses of England, Wales and the Channel Islands | Edward Peppitt | Balloon View Publishing (2024) |
| Legendary Lighthouses | Roger O’Reilly | Watkins Media (2024) |
| The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Irish Lighthouses | David Hare | Gill Books (2023) |
| Ireland’s Guiding Lights: Celebrating our lighthouses | Dennis Horgan, Gerald Butler | Red Stripe Press (2022) |
| Great Lighthouses of Ireland | David Hare | Gill Books (2022) |
| When The Light Goes Out | Peter Goulding | Amazon (2022) |
| For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland’s Lighthouses | Donald S Murray | Historic Environment Scotland (2021) |
| Lighthouses of Cornwall and Devon: A Narrative | Ken Trethewey | Jazz-Fusion Books (2020) |
| Lighting the Manx Coast | Dermot O’Toole | Lily Publications (2019) |
| Lighthouses of Ireland | Roger O’Reilly | The Collins Press (2018) |
| Scottish Lighthouse Pioneers | Paul A Lynn | Whittles Publishing (2017) |
| Scottish Lighthouses – an illustrated history | Michael A W Strachan | Amberley Publishing (2016) |
| Scottish and Manx Lighthouses | Ian Cowe | Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust (2015) |
| Lighthouses of the North East Coast | Robin Jones | Halsgrove (2014) |
| Cornwall’s Lighthouse Heritage | Michael Tarrant | Twelve Heads Press (2013) |
| Lighthouses of the East Coast | Robin Jones | Halsgrove (2013) |
| Lighthouses of England – The South West | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2011) |
| Lighthouses of Wales | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2011) |
| Lighthouses of the South West | Robin Jones | Halsgrove (2011) |
| The Island Lighthouses of Scotland | John A Love | Islands Book Trust (2011) |
| Lighthouses of England – The North East | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2010) |
| Lighthouses of England – The South East | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2010) |
| Lighthouses of England – The North West and Isle of Man | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2010) |
| Lighthouses of England – The South Coast | Tony Denton and Nicholas Leach | Foxglove Media (2010) |
| Lighthouses of Liverpool Bay | John and Diane Robinson | Tempus Publishing Ltd (2007) |
| Lighthouses of Ireland | Richard M Taylor | The Collins Press (2004) |
| Anglesey Lighthouses and Lifeboats | Margaret Hughes | Gwasg Carreg Gwalch (2004) |
| For the Safety of All (Irish Lights) | Sir Robert Ball | Commissioners of Irish Lights (2003) |
| Scotland’s Northern Lights | Sharma Krauskopf | The Shetland Times Ltd (2003) |
| Highlights of the Coast Lyme Bay to Isle of Wight | Trinity House | Jarrolds Publishing (2002) |
| Irish Lighthouses | Sharma Krauskopf | Appletree Press (2001) |
| Scottish Lighthouses | Sharma Krauskopf | Appletree Press (2001) |
| The Kentish Lights | Alan Major | SB Publications (2000) |
| Plymouth Breakwater and its lighthouse | Ken Trethewey | Jazz Fusion Books (2023) |
| Light on the Forelands | Ken and Clifford Trethewey | Jazz Fusion Books (2022) |
| An account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse | Robert Stevenson | Amazon (2022) |
| Happisburgh Lighthouse: Guiding the Mariner since 1791 | Patrick Tubby | Patrick Tubby (2022) |
| The Lighthouses of Beachy Head | Jane Seabrook | CTR Publishing (2020) |
| Keepers of the Light – Portland Bill and Chance Glassworks | Brendan Jackson with Geoff Broadway | |
| Kinnaird Head Lighthouse – an illustrated history | Michael A W Strachan | Amberley Publishing (2019) |
| Bell Rock Lighthouse – an illustrated history | Michael A W Strachan | Amberley Publishing (2018) |
| Life and Death on Little Ross | David R Collin | Whittles Publishing (2017) |
| Southwold Lighthouse | Chris Cardwell | Southwold Museum(2017) |
| Longships Lighthouse | Elizabeth Stanbrook | Twelve Heads Press (2016) |
| Bishop Rock Lighthouse | Elizabeth Stanbrook | Twelve Heads Press (2016) |
| The Lighthouse on Skerryvore | Paul A Lynn | Whittles Publishing (2015) |
| Views to a Lighthouse – Godrevy | Michael Marten | Kehrer (2015) |
| Sumburgh Head – a souvenir guide | Tom Morton | Sumburgh Head Visitor Centre (2014) |
| Belle Tout – The Little Lighthouse That Moved | Elizabeth Wright | MyVoice Publishing (2013) |
| The Story of the Beachy Head Lighthouse | Rob Wassell | RAW Publications (2012) |
| The Story of Belle Tout | Rob Wassell | RAW Publications (2011) |
| Muckle Flugga – The Impossible Lighthouse | Rhoda Hughson | Unst Heritage Trust |
| The White Cliffs and South Foreland | Dan Tuson | The National Trust (2010) |
| South Stack – Anglesey’s Famous Lighthouse | Ian Jones | Oriel Ynys Mon (2009) |
| Souter Lighthouse and The Leas | The National Trust | The National Trust (2009 |
| Godrevy Light | Charles Thomas and Jessica Mann | Twelveheads Press (2009) |
| Bishop Rock Lighthouse | Elisabeth Stanbrook | Twelveheads Press (2008) |
| A Light in the Wilderness (Cape Wrath) | David M Hird | Balnakeil Press (2008) |
| Grace Darling Victorian Heroine (Longstone) | Hugh Cunningham | Hambledon Continuum (2007) |
| Light over Lundy | Myrtle Ternstrom | Whittles Publishing Ltd (2007) |
| The Southwold Lighthouses | David Lee | Southwold Museum (2006) |
| Start Point and its Lighthouse | Roger Barrett | Orchard Publications (2006) |
| Eddystone – the Finger of Light | Mike Palmer | Seafarer Books (2005) |
| A Visit to the Eddystone Lighthouse (orig pub 1892) | Frederic G Kitton | Plymouth City Museum (2005) |
| Smeaton’s Tower | Christopher Severn | Seafarer Books (2005) |
| The Bell Rock Lighthouse | Robert Louis Stevenson | Caedmon of Whitby (2004) |
| A History of the Fastnet Lighthouse | James Morrisey | Crannog Books (2004) |
| Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse | Adam Hart-Davis and Emily Troscianko | Sutton Publishing Ltd (2003) |
| Guernsey Sentinel, The Hanois Lighthouse | Ray Dafter | Matfield Books (2003) |
| Henry Winstanley (Eddystone) | Alison Barnes | Saffron Walden Museum (2003) |
| A Year at the Lighthouse (Eshaness) | Sharma Krauskopf | Whittles Publishing (2002) |
| Ghosts at Leasowe Lighthouse | Eric G Johnson | Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse (2001) |
| The Keepers of Leasowe Lighthouse | J R Robinson | Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse (2001) |
| The Last Lighthouse (Eshaness) | Sharma Krauskopf | Luath Press Ltd (2000) |
| Grace Darling (Longstone) | W A Montgomery | M S Weightman (1999) |
| The 137 Steps – The Story of St Mary’s Lighthouse | Stephen Gregory | St Mary’s Lighthouse |
| From the Lighthouse | Robert W E Farrah | Hayloft Publishing (2025) |
| The Irish Lightkeepers Legacy | Martha Power-Baxter | Whittles (2025) |
| Light Blue | Sydney Scott | Sydney Scottt (2023) |
| Sodjer, Lichtie-Polis | David Fraser | David Fraser (2022) |
| Flashes of Memory: A Childhood among the Clyde Lighthouses | Mary Gillanders | Acair Books (2020) |
| Archie’s Lights – the life and times of a Scottish Lightkeeper | Archie MacEachern | Whittles Publishing (2019) |
| Living By The Lighthouse | Lorna Hanwell | Lorna Hanwell (2018) |
| Last Keepers – Lighthouse Stories | Tony Beddard | Austin MacCauley Publishing (2018) |
| The Boy Who Built Lighthouses – Memoirs of a Travelling Lighthouse Keeper | Brendan Conway | Brendan Conway (2017) |
| The Lightkeeper – A Memoir | Gerald Butler | The Liffey Press Ltd (2012) |
| The Keepers – A Historical Novel Based on Real Characters | Ken Trethewey | Jazz-Fusion Books (2012) |
| Hands That Made Lights Work | Gordon Partridge | Author House (2010) |
| Strangers to the Land | Ruth Dickson | Ruth Dickson (2009) |
| Star of The Four Kingdoms | Peter J Hill | Peter J Hill (2009) |
| RNLI Grace Darling Museum | Jane Bulmer, Malcolm Crampton and Jill Fenwick | RNLI Heritage House Group (2009) |
| An Illuminating Experience | Gordon Medlicott | Whittles Publishing (2009) |
| On The Rocks – A Lightkeeper’s Tale | Lawrence Tulloch | The Shetland Times Ltd (2009) |
| From a Rock to a Hard Place | Dale Vargas | Dale Vargas (2008) |
| Grace Darling | Hugh Cunningham | Hambleton Continuum (2007) |
| Last of the Line | Patricia Gumbrell | Whittles Publishing (2005) |
| Born on the edge of white water | Leonard V Stocker | Pen Press Publishers Ltd (2004) |
| Stargazing – Memoirs of a Lighthouse Keeper | Peter Hill | Canongate (2003) |
| As Long as Water Flows – An Islay Lighthouse Boatman | Dougie MacDougall | The Celtic House (2002) |
| Twelve Light Years | Margaret Aitken | Birlinn (2002) |
| No More Paraffin-Oilers | Ian Cassells | Whittles Publishing (2000) |
| It was Fun While It Lasted | A J Lane | Whittles Publishing (1998) |
| A Quiet Life | Martha Robertson | Whittles Publishing (1997) |
| The Douglass Lighthouse Engineers: How Did They Build Them? | Timothy Douglass | Tellwell Talent (2020) |
| In Fingal’s Wake – a tender tribute | Trevor Boult | Amberley Publishing (2016) |
| Light Upon The Waters | Andrew Adams and Richard Woodman | Trinity House (2013) |
| A Short Bright Flash | Theresa Levitt | W W Norton and Company (2013) |
| Dynasty of Engineers | Roland Paxton | Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust (2011) |
| Lighthouses The Race to Illuminate the World | Toby Chance and Peter Williams | New Holland Publishers (2008) |
| The Lighthouse Stevensons | Bella Bathurst | Harper Perennial (2005) |
| Grandpa’s Lighthouse Vol 3 | Kenneth Sutton-Jones | Peter Williams Associates (2006) |
| Grandpa’s Lighthouse Vol 2 | Kenneth Sutton-Jones | Peter Williams Associates (2006) |
| Grandpa’s Lighthouse Vol 1 | Kenneth Sutton-Jones | Peter Williams Associates (2005) |
| Keepers of the Sea | Richard Woodman | Chaffcutter Books (2005) |
| Trinity Buoy Wharf | Sarah Hewson and John Hawkes | Urban Space Management (2005) |
| Unusual sisters – the story of Trinity House Lightvessels 78 and 79. | Anthony Lane & Marcus Augustus | Amberley Publishing (2024) |
| Lightships – their design, development and diversity | Anthony Lane & Marcus Augustus | Amberley Publishing (2024) |
| A Light in the Darkness | Laim Clarke | Amberley Publishing (2016) |
| A History of Floating Aids to Navigation | Adrian H Wilkins | IALA (2014) |
| Lightships off the Essex Coast and LV18 | David Cleveland | David Cleveland (2012) |
| Philip & Sons Ltd Shipbuilders and Engineers | Derek Blackhurst | Ships in Focus Publications (2001) |
| Guiding Lights, The British Lightvessel from 1732 | Anthony Lane | Tempus Publishing (2001) |