Alison Huber
Alison Huber is the head book buyer for Readings. She has been selling books in Melbourne for twenty years. She is also a recovering academic.
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Krestser
The narrator of Theory & Practice relocates to Melbourne from Sydney in the mid-1980s to take up a place in the Masters program in the English Department at the University…
Blog post — 2 Oct 2024
Dear Reader, with Alison Huber
The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly available online and in our shops. Below you can read Alison Huber's column from the…
Blog post — 3 Sep 2024
Dear Reader, with Alison Huber
The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly available online and in our shops. Below you can read Alison Huber's column from the…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
The Temperature by Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson was named one of 2023’s Sydney Morning Herald Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and it’s worth noting that her first full-length novel had yet to be released…
Blog post — 6 Aug 2024
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly available online and in our shops. Below you can read Alison Huber's column from the…
Review — 29 Jul 2024
Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
Melbourne writer and artist Ella Baxter’s New Animal (published in March 2021) remains for me one of the standout debuts of recent years. A dark, beautiful satire and a new…
Blog post — 3 Jul 2024
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly available online and in our shops. Below you can read Alison Huber's column from the…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Hard Copy by Fien Veldman & Hester Velmans (trans.)
The workplace novel is having a quiet moment, and it’s hard to resist the set-up of this example of the genre, in which its narrator, a lowly administrator at a…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho
In 2023 I was one of three booksellers who helped judge the Penguin Literary Prize, along with Penguin publisher Meredith Curnow and senior editor Kathryn Knight. This $20,000 prize has…
Blog post — 4 Jun 2024
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
So it’s June, somehow. The passage of time is clear to the bookseller, who is always reading into the future, partially living in the idea of the months to come…