The custom is rooted in Iceland's literary history and celebrated during the Christmas season, bringing families and friends together over new books and chocolate. Sounds pretty perfect to us!

An 11-year-old cancer patient has said it was “very exciting” meeting the King and Queen after the royals gave him three books and a labelled Buckingham Palace gold chocolate coin.

Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Room at the New York Academy of Medicine, we will explore some of the early materials in the collection that document how chocolate made its way to Europe and ...