Available now the long awaited Spiral which is the fifth book in theTunnels series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. This book is getting rave reviews and the famous Barry Cunningham who discovered Harry Potter by J K Rowling is backing it.
These rare books are stunning. Each first edition book has a rare tunnels postage stamp by Brian Williams. And Roderick Gordon has also signed in gold pen over the stamp and lined the title page.
Many authors have tried to write the next series to replace Harry Potter and failed. However with the magic touch of Barry Cunningham and Chicken House backing this book who knows what may happen! There will be a movie series based on the Tunnels books. A film deal with Relativity Media was announced on 13 July 2007. Relativity Media is the production company responsible for 3:10 to Yuma, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and in the field of children's entertainment, The Spiderwick Chronicles (film). The first Tunnels movie is now scheduled for preproduction early next year. Vincenzo Natali has been appointed as Director.
Product Description
In this fifth and penultimate book in the Tunnels series, the Styx have surfaced. If you thought the Limiters were nasty, think again. They've brought their females with them this time. And all that stands in their way are Will and his friends, and a ragbag team of retired commandos. It's a smoking spiral of chaos and not everyone is going to survive. Highly anticipated fifth book in the internationally bestselling Tunnels series.
Product details
· First Edition First Printing
· Paperback: 496 pages
· Publisher: Chicken House; 1 edition (1 Sep 2011)
· Language English
· ISBN-10: 1906427844
· ISBN-13: 978-1906427849
· Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm |
About Tunnels
Plot summary
The book follows fourteen-year-old Will Burrows who lives in a fictitious London borough called Highfield with his family. Will has little in common with them except for a passion for digging, which he shares with his father. When his father inexplicably disappears down a tunnel, Will decides to investigate with his loyal friend, Chester. Soon they find themselves deep underground, where they discover the Colony, a subterranean city in which people have been living since Georgian times. These people have a deep hatred of anyone from the surface, who they call Topsoilers, and they are ruled by a strange and fanatical group called the Styx.
Publishing background and history
Although the authors sent excerpts to various publishers under the titleThe Highfield Mole, they did not pursue that avenue as they decided to self-publish the book, which they did on 17 March 2005 with a limited run of 500 hardback and 2,000 softback copies, financed by the sale of Roderick Gordon's house. The book received some trade press attention before launch and the entire hardback run sold within a day. On 19 November 2005, Barry Cunningham, of Chicken House, announced that he had agreed terms to publish The Highfield Mole and a second book in the series. Cunningham, while working for Bloomsbury in London, famously signed up J. K. Rowling, and this connection led to the book being branded "the next Harry Potter".
In June 2007, Chicken House announced that the book would be published in the United Kingdom in July 2007, and that they had also pre-sold the publication rights in 15 languages (it has now been sold to 40 overseas publishers). The authors and Barry Cunningham also decided to retitle the book Tunnels, to reflect that it had been changed by some limited editing. The United States publication would be released on 1 January 2008. With the announcement of the publication date, and press coverage in the UK, the price of the books from the initial self-published run jumped dramatically. A number of the copies are signed by the authors and 80 copies drawn from the 500-copy hardback run were numbered as part of a "Remarque" edition. These 80 numbered copies have a hand-drawn illustration by Brian Williams, an inscription by Roderick Gordon, and are signed by both authors.
The sequel, Deeper, was released in the UK on 5 May 2008 (in the United States on 3 February 2009), and a third book, Freefall, was published in the UK on 18 May 2009 (in the United States on 1 February 2010). The authors have not yet confirmed exactly how many books will be in the series, although a fourth book, to be called Closer has been published and so has Spiral.
There is also a "Colony Leather Bound Edition" of ten hardbacks, numbered and signed, with a hand-drawn picture by Brian Williams bound into the book. T-shirts, postcards, art prints, and bookmarks which were issued as promotional materials at the time of publication also attract interest from collectors. Also leather bound, is the very rare single copy of the hardback titled "The Book of Catastrophes".
Reception
In 2005 The Highfield Mole was reviewed by Stuart Webb in The Book and Magazine Collector and in 2007 Tunnels received numerous good reviews. Many reviewers commented on its vivid description, clever twists, and its imaginative plot, particularly The Observer, Philip Ardagh in The Guardian, and the Daily Express. It became an international bestseller in the US in 2007, entering the New York Times Bestseller List on two occasions, and achieving seventh place in the Chaper Books category on 9 March 2007.
