Irene Vallejo is a classicist and the global bestselling author of Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. She earned her European Doctorate from the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence and is a regular columnist for El País, El Espectador, and La Nación. Papyrus has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has been translated into forty languages. It was awarded the National Essay Prize in Spain, the Prix Livre de Poche in France, and the Wenjin Book Award in China, among other prizes. Irene is also the author of two children's books, two novels, and three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction.

'A combination of surprise,wisdom and humour... Like a leisurely conversation over coffee, Consolations tackles all manner of subjects with cultivated intelligence, good humour and a general sense of ease. The mundane is given as much space as the momentous; money is repeatedly said to matter little; happiness involves wishing to be who we are; and who we are emerges from multifarious relationships held in balance.

Irene Vallejo is a classicist and the global bestselling author of Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. She earned her European Doctorate from the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence and is a regular columnist for El País, El Espectador, and La Nación. Papyrus has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has been translated into forty languages. It was awarded the National Essay Prize in Spain, the Prix Livre de Poche in France, and the Wenjin Book Award in China, among other prizes. Irene is also the author of two children's books, two novels, and three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction.

'A combination of surprise,wisdom and humour... Like a leisurely conversation over coffee, Consolations tackles all manner of subjects with cultivated intelligence, good humour and a general sense of ease. The mundane is given as much space as the momentous; money is repeatedly said to matter little; happiness involves wishing to be who we are; and who we are emerges from multifarious relationships held in balance.

Irene Vallejo is a classicist and the global bestselling author of Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. She earned her European Doctorate from the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence and is a regular columnist for El País, El Espectador, and La Nación. Papyrus has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has been translated into forty languages. It was awarded the National Essay Prize in Spain, the Prix Livre de Poche in France, and the Wenjin Book Award in China, among other prizes. Irene is also the author of two children's books, two novels, and three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction.

'A combination of surprise,wisdom and humour... Like a leisurely conversation over coffee, Consolations tackles all manner of subjects with cultivated intelligence, good humour and a general sense of ease. The mundane is given as much space as the momentous; money is repeatedly said to matter little; happiness involves wishing to be who we are; and who we are emerges from multifarious relationships held in balance.