Crystal Palace can confirm that former Palace legend, Geoff Thomas, will be making an appearance at the club shop on Tuesday 29th July from 6pm.

Thomas will be on hand to sign copies of his book, Riding Through The Storm - My Fight Back To Fitness on the Tour de France, which will be available to purchase in paperback for £7.99

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Chronicling his awe-inspiring feat of riding the Tour de France route whilst battling leukaemia, it is a moving and compelling tale of human endeavour, bravery and sheer determination that has won critical acclaim:

Henry Winter from the Daily Telegraph wrote: ''RIDING THROUGH THE STORM details movingly and eloquently how Thomas fought cancer and then took on the Tour de France to prove how alive he was... All human life graces Thomas' oustanding book... peaks and troughs fill Thomas' book. Warming anecdotes proliferate..'' 

Jon Culley from the Independent: ''a wonderfully compelling read''

On completing the route, Thomas had succeeded in raising over £200,000 for his Leukaemia charity - The Geoff Thomas Foundation, which has set itself the target of raising £20 million over the next five years to fund early clinical trials of new blood cancer therapies.