The Nightingale

Reading and Agency
Novels make us recognise, reflect, and subsequently enact change in ourselves and in society: books are personal as well as social.
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Connections
No matter what you encounter, if your heart is centred, you will draw connections that augment what the heart knows and recognises of truth and beauty.
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Making Paper, Making Meaning
Until mid-May 2024 Wardah Books is hosting two installation artworks. One by Singapore artist Isabella Ong and another by Thai artist Wantanee Siripattananuntakul. While both artists fulfil their artistic vision by making paper, their starting points cannot be more different.
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Read for Relief
For Wardah Books, our resolution is to donate a percentage of our sales proceeds in Ramadan this year to providing aid to the dire food crisis in Gaza. According to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, “four out of five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza”.
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Guide to choosing your Clear Quran
Pictures comparing the types of Clear Qur'an available so you can make a better decision which would suit your purposes better, inshaAllah.
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Wardah Books of the Year 2023
Salaam Dear Reader. The tide of the year turns. The monsoon darkens the sky and the edges of leaves glisten with silver raindrops. The mercury drops a little; the heat becoming slightly less oppressive for birds to rest and refuel...
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Reducing Retail Packaging Waste
In line with government initiative to move towards becoming a zero-waste nation and to reduce retail packaging waste specifically, Wardah Books will be implementing three changes starting 2 Jan 2024: Bring Your Own Bags We encourage all customers to bring...
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Readers’ Choice 2023 Announced
Wardah Books is happy that an original work by Singapore authors (published by Claritas from the UK) has won recognition among our readers. Indeed it is a subject that is of immense importance because sex is so pervasive and is so dominant in contemporary culture — even if we don’t want to admit it.
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Readers’ Choice 2023 Shortlist
As is our custom now for several years, at the start of December we start a poll for you to decide collectively the most significant books of the year. The poll is open now and closes on 8 December. We will announce inshaAllah the Readers’ Choice a week after that on 15 December.
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