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Colm Tóibín talks to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto International Festival of Authors about his new novel, House of Names — a troubling tale of family, murder and vengeance that draws from Greek myth. They also discuss the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop.

Amy Liptrot writes about extremes - from the rugged environment of Scotland's Orkney Islands, where she grew up, to her struggles with alcoholism while navigating London's raucous party scene. Her 2015 memoir, The Outrun, won praise and prizes for its vivid evocation of the natural world on Orkney, to which Liptrot returned after spending time in rehab. Her new book, The Instant, focuses on urban wildlife and the heartbreak of a failed romance during a year spent in Berlin.

The first in our 3-part series, Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival. To start, performance poet, journalist, and former drug addict, Jeet Thayil. Set in the opium dens of Bombay, his debut novel, Narcopolis, was short-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and has just won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.