Episode 211 - JÓLABÓKAFLÓÐIÐ - THE CHRISTMAS BOOK FLOOD

Today, RÚV English Radio looks forward to the 24th of December...

Icelanders give each other books on what many English speakers call Christmas Eve - the 24th of December. You might hear this heartwarming tradition, in this most literary of nations, called Jólabókaflóðið - the Christmas (or Yule) Book Flood.

Darren met with Svanborg Þórdís Sigurðardóttir, product manager for foreign books at Penninn Eymundsson, to find out which books in English are leading the flood this year.

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