Like a hydra with nine heads, our own demons can get the better of us and such is the case in the novel ‘Hydra’ by Adriane Howell where Anja, the narrator, has to face the character flaws that have brought about her undoing. 

Anna Mandoki has written about a slightly futuristic Melbourne, of human connection in an increasingly fragmented world and where three very different women’s lives become entwined in ‘Random acts of Unkindness’.