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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Baker

I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son.

Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.

Fight Club!

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Sebastian, our lead protagonist, writes Haiku to escape the stresses of his worker-drone life. Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. The whole novel is covered in these three lines and that’s why you should read this novel. Sure, Fight Club is an iconic movie. And […]

Hi everybody, and welcome to BATCAVE BOOKS

My name is Garvan and I’m your host. Here’s a little about me: I’m an Irish father of three living on the Central Coast of New South Wales in a little beachside village called Copacabana. I’m a tragic Batman fan and have been reading and collecting comics most of my life. I’m 51 now, and […]