Money, kidnapping, reality TV, politics, corruption, families, love, and betrayal in all three books on this edition of The Bookshelf. Kate Evans and Jonathan Green, with guests Farz Edraki and Johan Gabrielsson, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, Porochistaa Khakpour's Tehrangeles and Patrick Holland's Oblivion. Awfully rich, richly awful.

BOOKS

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise, Wildfire

Porochistaa Khakpour, Tehrangeles: A Novel, Ultimo Press

Patrick Holland, Oblivion, Transit Lounge

GUESTS

Farz Edraki, Iranian-Australian writer and producer. Presenter of the ABC audio series, 'Days Like These'

Johan Gabrielsson, Swedish-born, Sydney-based filmmaker – and Bookshelf regular

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble

Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

James Joyce, Ulysses

Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields

Claire Keegan, Antarctica

James Salter, works

Jonathan Franzen, works

Philip Roth, works

Miranda July, All Fours

Clive James, Poetry Notebook

Niklas Turner Olovzon, Iceberg