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A Refusal To Join The Ghosts

David Crane CALL ME THE BREEZE by Patrick McCabe Faber, £16.99, pp. 341, ISBN 0571217451 1 t can't be easy to find anything new to say about Ireland or any new way of saying it.......

Spooked By A Spoof

Peter Porter MY LIFE AS A FAKE by Peter Carey Faber, £16.99, pp. 265, ISBN 0571216188 R eaders who have heard that Peter Carey's new novel is a 'roman a clef' should be warned......