James Kearney >Over Christmas and New Year, I read the second 900-page volume of David >Cairns' biography. It's brought on another of my Berlioz binges, with the >usual symptoms of nerves and exaltation. Cairns' insights revealed new >relationships between Berlioz' later works, and deepened my understanding >of works I thought over-familiar. Is this the biography of Berlioz that is being nominated for a Book(er) prize? Bob Draper [log in to unmask]