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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.

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Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan

Reviewed by
Alison Huber, Sep 2025

Patrick Ryan is a new author to me (though he has written a number of short-story collections and some literature for young adults), but Buckeye is already a well-loved book among early readers, with compelling endorsements from the likes of…

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Recent blog posts by Alison Huber

Australian fiction
2 Sep 2025

Dear Reader with Alison Huber

Featuring Snake Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta & Megan Kelleher, Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy, Unbury the Dead by Fiona Hardy and more!

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Australian fiction
5 Aug 2025

Dear Reader with Alison Huber

Featuring: Arborescence by Rhett Davis, Don't Say His Name by Rachel Givney, Conspiracy Nation by Ariel Bogle & Cam Wilson and more!

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Australian fiction
2 Jul 2025

Dear Reader with Alison Huber

Featuring Eden by Mark Brandi, The Peak by Sam Guthrie, What Artists See by Quentin Sprague, and more!

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News
2 Jun 2025

Dear Reader, with Alison Huber

A new month means a new issue of Readings Monthly – here's Alison column from the June edition.

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Australian fiction
1 May 2025

Dear Reader, with Alison Huber

Featuring Nightingale by Laura Elvery, The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz, Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You by Candice Chung, and more!

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News
2 Apr 2025

Dear Reader, with Alison Huber

Featuring On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle, The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, Unsettled by Kate Grenville, and more!

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Australian fiction
5 Mar 2025

The most anticipated books of 2025

Featuring a host of authors and new books to be excited about for the year ahead.

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Books
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 latest issue – and keep an eye on the blog…
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