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Nicola Meighan presents live from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Nicola chats to the book festival's Director, Jenny Niven; this is her first summer in post, and the first year at a brand new venue for the festival. They are joined by poet Michael Pedersen, who has just been announced as Edinburgh Makar.

Author Nina Stibbe tells Nicola about Went to London, Took the Dog, based on her diaries of a year spent living on the very literary street which was the setting for her debut book, Love, Nina.

Musician and writer Malachy Tallack performs songs from his forthcoming novel-and-album The Beautiful Atlantic Waltz.

This year鈥檚 book festival is marking the 200th anniversary of James Hogg鈥檚 Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Grid Iron theatre company鈥檚 Ben Harrison and Louise Welsh have collaborated on a multimedia project that takes people down the closes of the Old Town to travel back in time to Hogg鈥檚 Edinburgh.

Nicola talks to Paul Muldoon about poetry, music, and collaborating with Paul McCartney.

And she talks to two authors whose recent books both feature homecomings: Colm T贸ib铆n revisits old characters and old haunts in Long Island, the sequel to 2009's Brooklyn; and Leo Vardiashvili's debut, Hard By A Great Forest, was inspired by a trip he made to Georgia, the country his family left as refugees when he was 12 years old.