![]() ![]() Now back in possession of his soul and with time on his hands, he was able to meet up with Brian more regularly, and in 2003, they decided to start writing together, something they’d been threatening to do for more than two decades. He often says he sold his soul to the devil, but the devil didn’t want it. ![]() ![]() In 2001, after a nine-year stint with the same investment bank, Roderick was made redundant, something that he now describes as a blessing in disguise. For a couple of years he composed music and played in a number of bands, and toyed with getting into the film business (he was employed briefly by George Harrison’s Handmade Films), but somehow or other he ended up in the City working in corporate finance. They became close friends in the summer of 1980 after discovering they had very similar taste in films, music and literature, but mostly girls.Īfter a failed attempt to transfer to medical school to train as a doctor, Roderick graduated with a degree in biology, but without the vaguest idea of what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. At University College, London, he read Biology and also met the irrepressible Brian Williams, who was attending the Slade School of Fine Art. Chronically shy throughout his childhood, he sought refuge in drawing and writing, and had one of his first short stories published in a school magazine when he was twelve. Roderick Gordon, co-author of the Tunnels series, grew up in Highgate, North London. ![]()
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