Pallas Athene has been publishing attractive, intelligent non-fiction for over 25 years. We mainly focus on art, particularly painting, but also publish books about travel, history, literature, nature and food.
John Ruskin is a particular interest, as are Venice and Rome. We also publish the richly illustrated series Lives of the Artists, bringing together accounts of great artists written by their contemporaries.
Our current book on showcase is The Benson Diary, extracts from the diary of A. C. Benson (1862-1925), novelist, poet (he wrote 'Land of Hope and Glory'), educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Considered too controversial at the time, this diary was sealed up after Benson’s death. Only now, with the publication of this extensive selection, can his witty and acute judgements on people, institutions and issues be fully appreciated – ‘superior to James Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson and Chips Channon, and on a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf’ (Piers Brendon in The Literary Review).
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