People were running around and working on it in the US, but I was always the last to be told anything. I’m afraid I let myself dream that it was going to happen because first Vincenzo was appointed as the director which I thought was brilliant and I really liked his energy and approach when we spoke, then Mikael Håfström came on board instead – a heavyweight, but I never knew why there was a changeover and that’s been a big problem for me throughout the whole process – it wasn’t as if I had any meaningful contact at all with the producers or Relativity at any stage in the game.

Brian’s attitude has always been not to believe it could be real until it’s signed and sealed and some money’s exchanged hands. Yes, if I said it’s been frustrating that would be an understatement.

We’ve seen some promising announcements over the years, but then there were long stretches when there was no news at all. I’m just grateful that anyone is still interested in what I’m doing! I certainly never take it for granted.Ĭan I jump straight in and ask you about the Tunnels movie? I know a lot of readers are keen to know what’s going on with it after Relativity Media went bankrupt. Hi Roderick, it’s great that you wanted to do an interview before the release of your new book, which we learned recently is to be called Summerhouse Land. Roderick currently lives in Norfolk with his wife and two sons, but is known to sneak back to London for reasons of sanity.This is an interview I did with Sirius Holmes of late last year. If you click on the photo below it will take you to the website to see the original. 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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