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 — 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…
Review — 20 May 2024
Because I’m Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston
I’ve just come up for air after finishing this literary memoir about the author’s experience with post-partum psychosis. This is a fine piece of writing, a brutally honest work that…
Review — 19 May 2024
All Fours by Miranda July
There are many people out there who don’t need a review to tell them that their next essential book to read is anything Miranda July writes, whenever that happens to…
Blog post — 14 May 2024
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
Ceridwen Dovey needs no introduction to the Readings faithful, but for completeness, let me remind you that she was the inaugural recipient of The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing…
Blog post — 22 Apr 2024
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that this issue of our beloved Readings Monthly is an absolute cracker, because every issue is, ever since we began publishing…
Review — 25 Mar 2024
No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton
Murray Middleton won the 2015 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, an award for an unpublished manuscript by an author under 35 and known for uncovering writers like Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, and…
Blog post — 1 Mar 2024
The Most Anticipated Books of 2024
It’s that time of year again which I approach with equal parts excitement and dread – when I sit down under the weight of a too-close deadline to a blank…