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SUMMARY:A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Please only RSVP if you genuinely thin
 k you will attend the event.**\n\nWhat would happen if a doctor implanted 
 the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? I
 n Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world\, the dog starts to walk on two l
 egs\, drink\, smoke\, thieve\, chase women and recite every swear word in 
 Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official\, in other words.
  This rude\, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union\, banned immediately on p
 ublication\, is satire red in tooth and claw.
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SUMMARY:Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**One of the most acclaimed novels of th
 e 21st Century\, from the Nobel Prize-winning author**\n\nKazuo Ishiguro i
 magines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed ver
 sion of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy\, now thirty-one\, Never L
 et Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at th
 e seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awai
 ted her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love\, frie
 ndship and memory\, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of 
 the fragility of life.\n\n**Please only RSVP if you genuinely think you wi
 ll attend the event.**
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SUMMARY:A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\nWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
 \nNEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010\n\nJennifer Egan's spellbinding nove
 l circles the lives of Bennie Salazar\, an ageing former punk rocker and r
 ecord executive\, and Sasha\, the troubled young woman he employs. We firs
 t meet Sasha in her mid-thirties\, on her therapist's couch in New York Ci
 ty\, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie at t
 he melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced\, struggling to connect w
 ith his nine-year-old son\, listening to a washed-up band in the basement 
 of a suburban house.\nAlthough Bennie and Sasha never discover each other'
 s pasts\, the reader does\, in intimate detail\, along with the secret liv
 es of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs\, over 
 many years\, in many places.\n\nWith music pulsing on every page\, this is
  a startling\, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Brea
 thtaking work from one of our boldest writers.\n\n'Irresistible. Fiction o
 f the highest quality' Sunday Times\n'Egan's precise\, calm underwater pro
 se is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph\n'Stories that defy narrative
  convention' Financial Times\n'A must-read' Sunday Times\n\n**Please only 
 RSVP if you genuinely think you will attend the event.**
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SUMMARY:The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n\\*SELECTED AS THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH 
 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022\\*\n\nCould one rare plant hold the key to a thousan
 d riches?\nIt's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of 
 King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles\, however\, a diffe
 rent kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botan
 ic Garden\, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that 
 only occurs once every few decades.\nWhen newly widowed Elizabeth arrives 
 in Edinburgh to live with her late husband's aunt Clementina\, she's deter
 mined to put her unhappy past in London behind her. As she settles into he
 r new home\, she becomes fascinated by the beautiful Botanic Garden which 
 borders the grand house and offers her services as an artist to record the
  rare plant's impending bloom. In this pursuit\, she meets Belle Brodie\, 
 a vivacious young woman with a passion for botany and the lucrative\, dark
  art of perfume creation.\nBelle is determined to keep both her real ident
 ity and the reason for her interest the Garden secret from her new friend.
  But as Elizabeth and Belle are about to discover\, secrets don't last lon
 g in this Enlightenment city . . .\nAnd when they are revealed\, they can 
 carry the greatest of consequences . . .\n\n**Please only RSVP if you genu
 inely think you will attend the event.**
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SUMMARY:A Book I Loved
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\nNo book to read for this meeting - inste
 ad come along and tell us about a book you've really enjoyed which you'd l
 ike to nominate for future book group meetings.\n\nAfter hearing everyone'
 s choices\, there may be a chance to add some unread books to add to the l
 ist.\nAfter the meetup\, members can vote for the books they all want to r
 ead.\n\nAs this is the final meetup before Christmas\, there will also be 
 a Secret Santa for anyone who wishes to participate. Simply bring along a 
 used book (preferably wrapped) to give away to another attendee.\n\n**Plea
 se only RSVP if you genuinely think you will attend the event.**
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SUMMARY:Waverley by Walter Scott
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\nSet against the backdrop of the Jacobite
  Rebellion of 1745\, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley\, an id
 ealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they 
 are sent to the Scottish Highlands. When he finds himself drawn to the cha
 rismatic chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister Flora\, their 
 ardent loyalty to Prince Charles Edward Stuart appeals to Waverley's roman
 tic nature and he allies himself with their cause - a move that proves hig
 hly dangerous for the young officer. Scott's first novel was a huge succes
 s when it was published in 1814 and marked the start of his extraordinary 
 literary success.\n\nWith its vivid depiction of the wild Highland landsca
 pes and patriotic clansmen\, Waverley is a brilliant evocation of the old 
 Scotland - a world Scott believed was swiftly disappearing in the face of 
 a new\, modern era.\n\n**Please only RSVP if you genuinely think you will 
 attend the event.**
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SUMMARY:Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**The explosive literary sensation: a mo
 ther faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism.**\n\n
 On a dark\, wet evening in Dublin\, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish St
 ack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from
  Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husban
 d\, Larry\, a trade unionist.\n\nIreland is falling apart. The country is 
 in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband d
 isappears\, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a so
 ciety that is quickly unravelling. Soon\, she must decide just how far she
  is willing to go to keep her family safe.\n\n*Exhilarating\, terrifying a
 nd propulsive\, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winningnovelis a devastating vis
 ion of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of 
 the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.*
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