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 — 19 Aug 2018
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
Stephanie Bishop took themes of nostalgia, memory and migration and made them her own in her stunning 2015 Readings Prize-winning novel, The Other Side of the World. Bishop’s third…
Blog post — 28 Mar 2018
Dear Reader, April 2018
Anita Heiss has edited our Non-fiction Book of the Month, Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, an essential and generous collection that our reviewer calls nothing short of ‘brilliant’; this…
Review — 28 May 2018
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
During her year as a judge’s associate in the District Court in Queensland, Bri Lee finds herself enduring case after case after case involving rape, sexual assault and child abuse…
Blog post — 31 Jan 2018
The most anticipated books of 2018
Dear Reader,
As 2017 drew to a close, a previously unknown writer, Kristen Roupenian, sparked an intense social media frenzy when her short story, ‘Cat Person’, was published in the…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey won the inaugural Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2014 with her book of short stories, Only the Animals, an audacious and original work of imagination…
Blog post — 25 Oct 2017
Dear Reader, November 2017
Huge congratulations to Sam Carmody, author of The Windy Season, winner of this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. By now you will be familiar with the…
Blog post — 27 Sep 2017
Dear Reader, October 2017
When October rolls around in bookselling, a certain kind of anticipation fills the air. The deliveries get bigger, shelving becomes a serious logistical exercise, and we start to prepare ourselves…
Blog post — 24 Aug 2017
Dear Reader, September 2017
Our Fiction Book of the Month is Chris Womersley’s City of Crows, a fascinating historical novel set in seventeenth-century France. Our reviewer is full of praise for this book…
Blog post — 29 Jun 2017
Dear Reader, July 2017
Identity and memory are themes that run through a number of books in this issue. Our Nonfiction Book of the Month is Roxane Gay’s Hunger. It lays bare, in…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Sometimes, it’s a single character that makes a novel unforgettable; sometimes an intense plot puts you in a book’s grip; other times still, it’s the writer’s craft that draws you…
