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The Record has raised over £1000 since being published last year, and it would make a lovely Christmas gift. It’s available as a hardback, paperback and an eBook. I wrote the book in memory of my mum who died of bowel cancer in 2016. The book took over two and half years to complete, and it contains 65 chapters and 80,000 words. All proceeds raised from sales are being donated to Bowel Cancer UK.

The book features chapters on Kevin Sheedy, Eddie Gray, Christine Ohuruogu MBE, Carl Hester MBE, Anne Usher MBE, Jeanette Chippington MBE, Zac Purchase-Hill MBE, Rupert Moon, Kelly Smith, Deborah Alsina MBE, Lauren Backler, Gina and Esmée Shergold, Deborah Louise James, Steve Clark, Dilek Ercos, Deborah James, Dafydd Wyn Farr-Jones, Olivia Rowlands, Greg Gilbert and Stacey Heale, Richard and Sarah Haugh, Nicole Cooper, Gillian Wood, Susan George, Gaby Roslin, Nicola Bryant, Victoria Derbyshire, Jim Rosenthal, Nick Robinson, Bill Turnbull, Siân Lloyd, Matt Allwright, Gail Porter, Sean Fletcher, Jacquie Beltrao, David Baddiel, Lucy Porter, Basil Brush, Janet Ellis, Gregg Wallace, Colin Murray, Laura Boyd, Gareth Jones, Daniel Norcross, Natalie Germanos, Mike Selvey, Andrew White, Ian McMillan, Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, Frank Turner, John Coghlan, Steve Norman and Sabrina Winter, Hazel O’Connor, Steve Hackett, Jules Peters, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, James Stevenson, Amy Macdonald, Jeremy Cunningham, Skinny Lister, Justin Sullivan, Rick Witter, Biff Byford, The Tearaways, and Ryan Hamilton.

The bowel cancer community in particular were wonderful with their support for The Record, and all of these people feature in the book. Their stories are inspiring, and for many of the people in the book life with bowel cancer continues. A special mention for Kelly Smith who died in June. She wrote the wonderful foreword for the book, as well as telling me her story.

I travelled all over the UK to meet with people from the worlds of sport, television, the media and music. All these amazing experiences with an incredibly supportive set of people are documented in The Record. I even got to meet and interview Basil Brush!

Each person taking part has told me about the first record that they bought, and all have been willing to help raise awareness about bowel cancer, which is Britain’s second highest cancer killer.

Please click here to find out all the ways that you can buy The Record.