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Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams biography
Roderick Gordon was born, grew up and went to university in London. He worked in corporate finance in the City until 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 recently moved with his family from London to north Norfolk.
Brian Williams grew up in Zambia until moving to Liverpool with his family in the seventies. 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 presently lives in Hackney.
Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams co-wrote and self-published The Highfield Mole in March The hardback sold-out in only half a day thanks chiefly to a book review in The Book and Magazine Collector. It reachied th
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Roderick Gordon
British author
Roderick Gordon (born November ) is a British author, best known for Tunnels, a bestselling children's book and the first book in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.
Biography
[edit]Born in November , Roderick grew up in Highgate, North London. Chronically shy throughout his childhood, he sought refuge in drawing and writing, and whilst at the ingångsrum School, Hampstead, he had his first short story published in the school magazine, at the age of twelve. He went on to public school at Oundle, and then attended University College, London, where he read biology (specializing in genetics). It was here that he met his future collaborator on the Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at the Slade School of Fine Art. They became friends in the summer of , and kept in touch until, some twenty-three years later, they finally began to cooperate on their writing.[1]
After an unsuccessful attempt to transfer