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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260908T183000
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SUMMARY:A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**'If you care about something you have 
 to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love\, you
  have to find the courage to live it.'**\n\nSummer\, 1953. In the small to
 wn of Gravesend\, New Hampshire\, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his
  best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When
  Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother\, their lives are changed
  in an instant.\n\nIt is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees
 . He believes that he is God's instrument\, put on Earth for a higher purp
 ose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam 
 War\, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan w
 as not imagined after all.\n\n**Discover the funny yet poignant classic by
  the bestselling author of The World According to Garp.**
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260922T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260922T203000
SUMMARY:A Book I Hated
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\nBy popular demand ...\n\nRather than rea
 ding a specific book this time\, we'll chat about books we disliked. Every
  attendee will have the chance to present one book and at the end of the s
 ession\, we'll take a vote and potentially read one of them for a later ev
 ent. Books are naturally subjective and often what one person dislikes\, a
 nother loves!
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SUMMARY:Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\n*'A mast
 erpiece' Julian Barnes*\n\nFlaubert's erotically charged and psychological
 ly acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on it
 s publication in 1857. Its heroine\, Emma Bovary\, is stifled by provincia
 l life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels\,
  she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance\, in voracious spending and
 \, eventually\, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment
 \, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expecta
 tions\, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that m
 any women claimed they were the model for his heroine\; but Flaubert insis
 ted: 'Madame Bovary\, c'est moi.'
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261027T183000
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SUMMARY:A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\nWhat wou
 ld happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man
  into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world\,
  the dog starts to walk on two legs\, drink\, smoke\, thieve\, chase women
  and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a gover
 nment official\, in other words. This rude\, riotous send-up of the Soviet
  Union\, banned immediately on publication\, is satire red in tooth and cl
 aw.
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CREATED:20260812T132218Z
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261110T183000
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SUMMARY:Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\n**One of
  the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century\, from the Nobel Prize-winn
 ing author**\n\nKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students g
 rowing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by 
 Kathy\, now thirty-one\, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come t
 o terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and wi
 th the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wid
 er world. A story of love\, friendship and memory\, Never Let Me Go is cha
 rged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261124T183000
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SUMMARY:A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\nWINNER O
 F THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION\nNEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010\n\nJ
 ennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar\, an
  ageing former punk rocker and record executive\, and Sasha\, the troubled
  young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties\, on her 
 therapist's couch in New York City\, confronting her longstanding compulsi
 on to steal. We meet Bennie at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - di
 vorced\, struggling to connect with 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 de
 tail\, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose pat
 hs intersect with theirs\, over many years\, in many places.\nWith music p
 ulsing on every page\, this is a startling\, exhilarating novel of self-de
 struction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writer
 s.\n'Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality' Sunday Times\n'Egan's p
 recise\, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph\n
 'Stories that defy narrative convention' Financial Times\n'A must-read' Su
 nday Times
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SUMMARY:The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\n\\*SELEC
 TED AS THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022\\*\n\nCould one rare
  plant hold the key to a thousand riches?\nIt's the summer of 1822 and Edi
 nburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botan
 ical circles\, however\, a different kind of excitement has gripped the ci
 ty. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden\, the Agave Americana plant look
 s 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 determined to put her unhappy past in London be
 hind her. As she settles into her new home\, she becomes fascinated by the
  beautiful Botanic Garden which borders the grand house and offers her ser
 vices as an artist to record the rare plant's impending bloom. In this pur
 suit\, she meets Belle Brodie\, a vivacious young woman with a passion for
  botany and the lucrative\, dark art of perfume creation.\nBelle is determ
 ined to keep both her real identity and the reason for her interest the Ga
 rden secret from her new friend. But as Elizabeth and Belle are about to d
 iscover\, secrets don't last long in this Enlightenment city . . .\nAnd wh
 en they are revealed\, they can carry the greatest of consequences . . .
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261222T183000
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SUMMARY:A Book I Loved
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\nNo book 
 to read for this meeting - instead come along and tell us about a book you
 've really enjoyed which you'd like to nominate for future book group meet
 ings.\n\nAfter hearing everyone's choices\, there may be a chance to add s
 ome unread books to add to the list.\nAfter the meetup\, members can vote 
 for the books they all want to read.\n\nAs this is the final meetup before
  Christmas\, there will also be a Secret Santa for anyone who wishes to pa
 rticipate. Simply bring along a used book (preferably wrapped) to give awa
 y to another attendee.
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SUMMARY:Waverley by Walter Scott
DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\n**Due to an unavoidable change of venue\
 , the numbers for this event are capped at 12. Please only RSVP if you gen
 uinely think you will attend the event.**\n\n**The meetup location will be
  confirmed closer to the time. It will be central Edinburgh.**\n\nSet agai
 nst the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745\, Waverley depicts the 
 story of Edward Waverley\, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his r
 egiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands. When h
 e finds himself drawn to the charismatic chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor and his
  beautiful sister Flora\, their ardent loyalty to Prince Charles Edward St
 uart appeals to Waverley's romantic nature and he allies himself with thei
 r cause - a move that proves highly dangerous for the young officer. Scott
 's first novel was a huge success when it was published in 1814 and marked
  the start of his extraordinary literary success.\n\nWith its vivid depict
 ion of the wild Highland landscapes and patriotic clansmen\, Waverley is a
  brilliant evocation of the old Scotland - a world Scott believed was swif
 tly disappearing in the face of a new\, modern era.
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