Welcome to the Nigel Oakley Writes blog which is split into the three categories below.

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The Run-Up to Christmas

At this point in ‘Warrior Princess, Errant Page,’ Anglo-Saxon Princess Emma has been sent to eastern Bohemia, so she and her future (and younger) husband can get to know each other. Things, as we find out in this chapter, clearly have not gone to plan.

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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

Resolute Books (who published Warrior Princess, Errant Page) are doing a series on social media about favourite children’s books. I thought I would put an expanded version of my contribution up here.

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Warrior Princess, Errant Page is finally published!

On 10th March, 2025, my first novel, ‘Warrior Princess, Errant Page’ was released onto an unsuspecting public. I am happy, relieved, thrilled, and amazed that I have got this far having promised my sons so long ago that I would find out who the page was.

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Update on My First Novel: ‘Warrior Princess and Errant Page.’

It has taken sixteen years, but next spring, around March or April 2025, copies of the young adult historical novel ‘Warrior Princess and Errant Page’ – all about King Wenceslas’s page and his relationship with King Alfred the Great’s granddaughter – should be available in ebook and paperback versions.

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