Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, authors of Tunnels and its sequel Deeper, will be making appearances this summer at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 22nd August and the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature on 28th September. Since Tunnels re-release in 2007 (originally released in 2005 under the title of The Highfield Mole) it has become the second in the children’s book charts in France, the number one seller in Romania and a New York Times Bestseller!

Further information on the Edinburgh International Book Festival can be found at http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/ 

For further information on the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature go to http://www.bathkidslitfest.co.uk/

The two British fantasy authors behind the publishing phenomenon, Tunnels, have landed a million-pound film contract. Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, authors of the series that has already been called the "new Harry Potter" have been signed up Relativity Media. The deal was arranged Barry Cunningham, the man who published JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone after she had suffered many refusals.

Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams are excited by the proposed big-budget movie of their novel. Tunnels follows the adventures of Will Burrows, a 10-year-old boy who finds a secret world of tunnels beneath the garden of his London home.

Gordon and Williams have been friends since their college days and self-published 2,500 copies of the book in 2005. In 2007, The Daily Telegraph exclusively published extracts from Tunnels just before it hit the bookstands.

The authors will earn £500,000 in advance royalties, with in excess of £500,000 once filming starts. Tunnels, the first in a series of fantasy children’s novels, has reached number one in countries including France, as well as number six in the New York Times Bestseller list.

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