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.
Blog post — 4 May 2022
Dear Reader, May 2022
I found tears sliding down my face on the tram earlier this year while reading Chloe Hooper’s Bedtime Story, our wonderful Nonfiction Book of the Month. This exceptional memoir…
Blog post — 6 Apr 2022
Dear Reader, with Alison Huber
Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (among other awards) for her superb 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. It was a runaway staff favourite at…
Blog post — 3 Mar 2022
Dear Reader, with Alison Huber
As I write, it does feel like things are, ever-so-slowly, coming back to life in Melbourne. More people are out and about, dinners are being had, and there’s something approaching…
Review — 8 Nov 2020
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
A truer sentiment than the title of this work of Japanese fiction could hardly be imagined at this time, but this pre-pandemic piece of writing follows its 36-year-old narrator’s search…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend is one of my highlights of recent reading years, and it has become so much a part of my own reading autobiography that it’s hard to…
Blog post — 3 Feb 2022
The most anticipated books of 2022
Dare I say it: here we go again? With another Covid-dominated year on the horizon, it is easy to feel not a little despondent: I don’t mind admitting, dear reader…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing by Sian Prior
The question of whether or not to have children was never one that held any ambivalence for Sian Prior: she always wanted to have children of her own. She had…
Review — 2 Mar 2022
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
To fellow fans of the campus novel, particularly the subcategory of campus novels set in university English and creative writing departments, and even more specifically, thesub-subcategory featuring plots that focus…
Review — 28 Feb 2022
Hovering by Rhett Davis
Alice has landed back on home turf, and she’s certain the taxi from the airport is going in the wrong direction to get her into Fraser, the fictional Australian city…
Blog post — 8 Nov 2021
Dear Reader, November 2021
Observers of literary trends will know that poetry has been having a significant popular renaissance in recent years, and it has been fascinating to watch the growing appetite for newly…