Icelandic Book Flood

Calling all local authors and illustrators to participate in the Wenham Museum’s Jolabokaflod! Jolabokaflod is the Icelandic Christmas Book Flood, a tradition that started during World War II when paper was not rationed and giving books as gifts became a tradition. Icelanders read their new books on Christmas Eve while sipping hot chocolate.

Share and sell your work with the local community just in time for the giving season. Members of the public are invited to meet you, shop the book flood, make a blank book to take home, and purchase hot chocolate to enjoy!

Authors and illustrators interested in selling their books should register online by clicking here.

For the general public, tickets to this event will be free for Members and included with admission for all other guests.  Books and hot chocolate will be available for purchase.

Participating Authors & Illustrators (as of Oct. 27, 2023)

Dianne C. Braley – Women’s fiction
Aime Card – Nonfiction and Memoir
Karin Gertsch – Fiction for adults and children aged 3-8; travel guides; short stories. 
Linda Jenkins – Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel
Virginia Pye – Historical fiction
Tara White – Children’s fiction
Stefanie Van Steelandt – Biography and History
G Pa Rhymes – Children’s fiction
Mary Carvill – Poetry, Religion
Ron Smales – Horror
Janis Robinson Daly – Historical fiction
Peggy Cook – Memoir
Stella Nahatis – Nonfiction, memoir