The Authors

Roderick Gordon was born in and grew up in London with a short sentence at a public school, from which he emerged relatively unscathed. He subsequently attended University College, London, where he would spend long afternoons with his co-author in the various student bars. This equipped him well for his subsequent job working in corporate finance in one of the up and coming investment banks, which, in its wisdom, decided to liberate him in 2001. He counts a number of writers among his ancestors such RD Blackmore, the Teddington-based market gardener who wrote Lorna Doone, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, author of Prehistoric London - Its Mounds and Circles, and, not least, the two paleontologists and celebrated eccentrics, William and Frank Buckland (which probably explains much). He has recently moved to north Norfolk with his family, although he nips back to the Big Smoke whenever he gets half a chance.


Brian Williams spent his childhood in Africa and moved with his family to Liverpool in the seventies. After indulging in his three main passions during his teenage years - amateur boxing, experimental art and high-speed car chases - he attended The Slade School of Fine Art in the early eighties where he bizarrely earned the distinction of being referred to as "A dynamic group of performance artists". In one instance, the fire brigade had to be called, bringing an early conclusion to one of his more inflammatory installations, and he was advised by the then Professor, Sir Laurence Gowing, to view the intervention "as part of the piece". Since graduating, he has continued to make his own films and has acted in and/or worked as art director for a number of UK productions, which include projects by Alex Cox and Charlie Higson. He currently lives with his invisible dog in deepest Hackney.

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Photograph by Mike Parsons