30-07-2025
Crime-solving badger takes centre stage in Steve Nash's debut novel
A crime-solving badger takes centre stage in a new work of fiction.
Remington Platypus is the first novel by Steve Nash, an award-winning poet and former lecturer at York St John University.
The book will be published on July 31 by Yorkshire indie publisher Northodox Press.
Mr Nash said: "York shaped me as a writer and academic.
"It's a place I still carry in everything I do creatively."
Described as a "genre-blending literary crime novel," Remington Platypus tells the story of a badger detective who investigates the appearance of a grotesque, multi-species body, "a fusion of multiple species, Frankensteined together into something that should never have existed."
"Someone is making monsters," and Remington, against the appeals of his boss, delves further into the world of the Murder, the syndicate of crows that controls half the city.
Remington Platypus is available for pre-order from Northodox Press at And from Waterstones:
