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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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The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial
by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein

Reviewed by
Alison Huber, Oct 2025

Clear your diaries, because The Mushroom Tapes is categorically a must-read, diary-clearing kind of book: the hotly anticipated literary engagement with the infamous and internationally compelling Erin Patterson triple murder trial that we’ve all been waiting for, and undoubtedly the…

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

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