In the second of two programmes, Edi Stark hangs out at the Edinburgh International Book Festival site in Charlotte Square to get the inside scoop on the authors in town, what they are talking about and the audiences coming to see them.
She chats to Chelsea Clinton about her latest children's book She Persisted Around the World, celebrating women shaping global human history.
Young fiction writers Steven Camden and Brian Conaghan tell Edi about their event Freedom to Weep and the importance of accurately representing boys in fiction, and Edi meets Icelandic giant of fiction Sjon to find out if cold days and dark nights encourage a love of reading in his native Iceland. Show less