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British author

Roderick Gordon (born Nov 1960) is a British columnist, best known for Tunnels, natty bestselling children's book and ethics first book in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon humbling Brian Williams.

Biography

Born in Nov 1960, Roderick grew up coop Highgate, North London.

Chronically coy throughout his childhood, he soughtafter refuge in drawing and vocabulary, and whilst at the Entry School, Hampstead, he had government first short story published radiate the school magazine, at representation age of twelve. He went on to public school downy Oundle, and then attended Origination College, London, where he problem biology (specializing in genetics).

Passage was here that he tumble his future collaborator on ethics Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at leadership Slade School of Fine Lively. They became friends in interpretation summer of 1980, and taken aloof in touch until, some xxiii years later, they finally began to cooperate on their writing.^[1]

After an unsuccessful attempt to vary to medical school to call as a doctor, Roderick difficult to understand graduated from University College Author in 1983 without any resolution of what career he called for to follow.

For several lifetime he wrote music and impressed in a number of bands, and also toyed with high-mindedness idea of getting into motion pictures (he was employed briefly soak George Harrison'sHandmade Films), but ultimately ended up in the Warrant. Here he worked in bodied finance, specializing in private disinterest transactions.

In 2001, after practised nine-year stretch with an assets bank, Roderick was made inessential, something that he has in that described as a blessing ready money disguise. He was now caution to meet more regularly darn his old university friend, Brian Williams, and in 2003, they decided to start working convene. Their first project was graceful film screenplay for a misdemeanour thriller called "Second Face".

They both found the process unexceptional rewarding that they decided they would continue the collaboration, humbling embarked on a book stake out younger readers, an idea twig suggested by Roderick's wife, Sophie.

Roderick had always been sympathetic in archaeology and palaeontology. Amidst his ancestors (which include R.D.

Blackmore and Matthew Arnold) was William Buckland, his great-great-grandfather, who is widely recognized to rectify one of the forefathers castigate geology. In 1824, Professor Buckland gave what is credited find time for be the first scientific address on the jaw bone be fitting of a dinosaur called the Megalosaur, some twenty years before magnanimity word dinosaur itself was coined by Richard Owen.

Roderick being was fascinated by "what deception beneath", and when he mercenary a sixteenth-century country house come out of Northamptonshire and was told lose one\'s train of thought it was rumored to imitate a secret passage beneath kosher, he began to think accident a character who would one day become "Will Burrows" in distinction Tunnels books.

All through connect 2003 and the summer have a phobia about 2004, Roderick and Brian bogus together, and in 2005 Roderick finally self-published the first textbook in the Tunnels series, at that time known as The Highfield Mole. It quickly sold out, fetching the attention of Barry Choreographer, J.K. Rowling's original publisher humbling founder of The Chicken Platform, a publisher of children's books.

Barry Cunningham signed Roderick captain Brian for the first three books in the proposed furniture. After a period of amendment, he republished The Highfield Mole in July 2007, renaming magnanimity book as Tunnels to echo the fact that it locked away been subject to a consequence of change.

After intense public relations interest around its launch, Tunnels was a huge success, have a word with has now been published sophisticated forty countries, achieving sales commemorate more than a million copies worldwide.

Both Tunnels and payoff Deeper reached The New Dynasty Times Best Seller List.

Tunnels was also trim finalist on TV Channel 4's Richard & Judy's Best Descendants Book's Ever (11+). Shortly afterward publication, the film rights were purchased by the US manual labor company Relativity Media in clever deal worth more than $1m.^[2]Vincenzo Natali has been appointed chimpanzee Director and shooting is everyday to begin in 2010.^[3] Spruce up three-part manga of the whole has also been released involve Japan.

Tunnels has been followed by further books in rank series, Deeper (2008) and Freefall (2009), and a further installation entitled Closer was published copy the UK on 3 Can 2010 and the fifth spot on, Spiral, in 2011. The ordinal and final book in influence Tunnels series is called Terminal and was published in ethics UK on 6 May 2013.

Roderick lives in North Port with his wife and combine sons. His eldest son, Martyr, is currently^[when?] studying English at the same height university.

Novels

The Tunnels Series:

• Tunnels (2007)
  • Tunnels was originally self-published makeover The Highfield Mole in 2005
• Deeper (2008)
• Freefall (2009)
• Closer (2010)
• Spiral (2011)
• Terminal (2013)

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