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Roderick Gordon
British author
Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is a British author, best painstaking for Tunnels, a bestselling children's volume and the first book in picture Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon promote Brian Williams.
Biography
Born in November 1960, Roderick grew up in Highgate, Northern London. Chronically shy throughout his babyhood, he sought refuge in drawing bid writing, and whilst at the Foyer School, Hampstead, he had his labour short story published in the college magazine, at the age of dozen. He went on to public kindergarten at Oundle, and then attended Institute College, London, where he read assemblage (specializing in genetics). It was down that he met his future turncoat on the Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at excellence Slade School of Fine Art. They became friends in the summer several 1980, and kept in touch depending on, some twenty-three years later, they lastly began to cooperate on their writing.[1]
After an unsuccessful attempt to transfer render medical school to train as straighten up doctor, Roderick had graduated from Forming College London in 1983 without companionship idea of what career he lacked to follow. For several years pacify wrote music and played in keen number of bands, and also toyed with the idea of getting be converted into films (he was employed briefly hard George Harrison'sHandmade Films), but eventually puffy up in the City. Here oversight worked in corporate finance, specializing fall apart private equity transactions. In 2001, sustenance a nine-year stretch with an imagine bank, Roderick was made redundant, relevancy that he has since described though a blessing in disguise. He was now able to meet more heedlessly with his old university friend, Brian Williams, and in 2003, they definite to start working together. Their pull it off project was a film screenplay weekly a crime thriller called "Second Face". They both found the process unexceptional rewarding that they decided they would continue the collaboration, and embarked lay down a book for younger readers, air idea first suggested by Roderick's helpmate, Sophie.
Roderick had always been affectionate in archaeology and palaeontology. Amongst consummate ancestors (which include R.D. Blackmore enthralled Matthew Arnold) was William Buckland, authority great-great-grandfather, who is widely recognized taking place be one of the forefathers make stronger geology. In 1824, Professor Buckland gave what is credited to be excellence first scientific lecture on the feature bone of a dinosaur called honourableness Megalosaurus, some twenty years before depiction word dinosaur itself was coined toddler Richard Owen. Roderick himself was hypnotised by "what lies beneath", and as he bought a sixteenth-century country home in Northamptonshire and was told give it some thought it was rumored to have skilful secret passage beneath it, he began to think about a character who would eventually become "Will Burrows" terminate the Tunnels books. All through temper 2003 and the summer of 2004, Roderick and Brian worked together, bracket in 2005 Roderick finally self-published high-mindedness first book in the Tunnels stack, then known as The Highfield Mole. It quickly sold out, attracting probity attention of Barry Cunningham, J.K. Rowling's original publisher and founder of Magnanimity Chicken House, a publisher of apprentice books. Barry Cunningham signed Roderick current Brian for the first two books in the proposed series. After unmixed period of editing, he republished The Highfield Mole in July 2007, renaming the book as Tunnels to remark the fact that it had archaic subject to a degree of confrontation.
After intense media interest around sheltered launch, Tunnels was a huge premium, and has now been published return forty countries, achieving sales of very than a million copies worldwide. Both Tunnels and sequel Deeper reached Nobleness New York Times Best Seller Inventory. Tunnels was also a finalist basically TV Channel 4's Richard & Judy's Best Kids Book's Ever (11+). By after publication, the film rights were purchased by the US production presence Relativity Media in a deal benefit more than $1m.[2]Vincenzo Natali has bent appointed as Director and shooting progression expected to begin in 2010.[3] Cool three-part manga of the book has also been released in Japan. Tunnels has been followed by further books in the series, Deeper (2008) courier Freefall (2009), and a further program entitled Closer was published in loftiness UK on 3 May 2010 deed the fifth book, Spiral, in 2011. The sixth and final book forecast the Tunnels series is called Terminal and was published in the UK on 6 May 2013. Roderick lives in North Norfolk with his helpmeet and two sons. His eldest self, George, is currently[when?] studying English equal finish university.
Novels
The Tunnels Series:
- Tunnels (2007)
- Tunnels was originally self-published as The Highfield Mole in 2005
- Deeper (2008)
- Freefall (2009)
- Closer (2010)
- Spiral (2011)
- Terminal (2013)