Barry Cunningham of Chicken House signed the co-authors for the first two books in the series, Tunnels and Deeper.The Highfield Mole (Tunnels) is planned to be the first in a young adult series about a fourteen year-old, Will Burrows, who lives with his family in the fictitious London borough of Highfield. It reachied 156th place in the .uk sales rankings. The hardback sold-out in only half a day thanks chiefly to a book review in The Book and Magazine Collector. Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams co-wrote and self-published The Highfield Mole in March 2005. He attended The Slade School of Fine Art and, after graduating, has continued with painting, writing and film-making, which has encompassed both his own films and also working as art director and acting in a number of UK productions. He recently moved with his family from London to north Norfolk.īrian Williams grew up in Zambia until moving to Liverpool with his family in the seventies.
He counts a number of writers and poets among his ancestors such RD Blackmore, Philip Doddridge and Matthew Arnold plus two paleontologists and celebrated eccentrics, William and Frank Buckland. He worked in corporate finance in the City until 2001.
Roderick Gordon was born, grew up and went to university in London. Roderick currently lives in Norfolk with his wife and two sons, but is known to sneak back to London for reasons of sanity.Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams biography The series has achieved sales approaching two million worldwide, and a movie adaptation is being explored. After intense media interest around its launch, Tunnels was published in forty different countries and was followed by further books in the series: Deeper (2009), Freefall (2010), Closer (2011), Spiral (2012) and Terminal (2013). Following a period of editing, Barry republished it as Tunnels in July 2007. Roderick surprised himself by attempting to write a book with help from an old friend from university and, in 2005, he self-published it as The Highfield Mole, which caught the attention of Barry Cunningham, founder of Chicken House, a publisher of children's books. He genuinely thought this was all that the future held for him until he was made redundant in 2001.
After graduating without the faintest idea what he wanted to do, he spent some time in the wilderness when he played in a few bands, then somehow fell into a job doing corporate finance for an investment bank in the City of London. Born in 1960, he grew up in Highgate, North London, and eventually went to university where he dabbled in genetics and listened to Joy Division. Roderick Gordon is the author of the Tunnels series of books.
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