The Highfield Mole

Tunnels is a subterranean fiction novel by British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. It was initially published by The Chicken House in 2007. The story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old 'archaeologist', who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony. Will and his friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony.