Book Launch & Signing: Onjali Q. Raúf

We are thrilled to announce that on Sunday, 16 November 2025 at 5.00pm, we will be hosting multi award-winning children’s author from the United Kingdom, Onjali Q. Raúf at Wardah Books!

Parents, if you want to ignite the love for reading and writing among your little ones, there is nothing quite like meeting a real-live author in person. Onjali’s well loved books include The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Letter with the Golden Stamp and The Lion Above the Window (this one even has a Singapore connection).

In this session, Onjali will be launching her latest book about the challenges of living with a relative experiencing Dementia, The Game I Will Never Forget. She will be talking about the book and will be signing copies of this book as well as any copies of her other titles that your child already has.

So please don’t miss this opportunity. See you all on Sunday evening!

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Onjali Q. Raúf is a multi award-winning children’s author and women’s and refugee human rights activist. She is the founder and CEO of Making Herstory which works to end the abuse, enslavement and trafficking of women and girls in the UK, and O’s Refugee Aid Team which mobilises aid convoys and funds to help frontline refugee response teams across northern France and beyond.

She is the author of Sunday Times bestseller, The Boy at the Back of the Class, which won the Blue Peter Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2019, the Sakura Medal of Japan in 2020 and the Janusz Korczak Prize in 2022 amongst many others. Her follow-up stories include The Star Outside My Window, The Night Bus Hero, The Great Food Bank Heist, The Lion Above the Door, a non-fiction title, Hope on the Horizon, and most recently, Where Magic Grows: a book of seven original fairy tales inspired by her travels and best-loved sayings.

She was awarded an MBE in 2022 for her services to women’s rights and children’s literature, and in 2023, was recipient of the NEU Fred and Anne Jarvis Award for services to education and her humanitarian works. Onjali is also a Patron of VIP Reading, Facefront Theatre, and NIA Women; an Ambassador for Walk With Amal, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought. An alumnus of the Cambridge University Senior Faith in Leadership programme, she was listed as one of BBC’s 100 most influential women from around the world in 2019.

Her first children’s play, The Hero Next Door, was staged and toured in England and Wales in 2023. An for the stage launches at London’s Rose Theatre in February 2024, and will be touring across England until June 2024.

Twitter: @OnjaliRauf / @MakeHerstory1 / @O_Refugee
Website: www.onjaliqrauf.org

Told with humour and heart, this story highlights the challenges of living with a relative experiencing Dementia, alongside the unbreakable bond between a child and a grandparent.

Day/Date: Sunday, 16 November 2025
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: Wardah Books, Reading Loft (Level 2)

No registration required.

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