Something to Answer For Something to Answer For Something to Answer For is a 1968 novel by the English writer P. H. Newby. Its chief claim to fame is that in 1969 it won the inaugural Booker Prize, which would go on to become one of the major literary awards in the English-speaking world. It was reissued by Faber & Faber in 2008 in the "Faber Finds" line, in 2011 as paperback and in 2018. Townrow is a Fund Distributor stealing from the fund he is in charge of. He is contacted by the widow of an old friend, Elie Khoury. They had met
Richard Newby, Baron Newby Yeomen of the Guard. In September 2012, he was appointed Treasury spokesman in the House of Lords. In September 2016 he was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords replacing Lord Wallace of Tankerness. Lord Newby has been married since 1978 to the Rev. Ailsa Ballantyne Newby (née Thomson, now the Canon Residentiary of Ripon Cathedral); they have two sons. According to the House of Lords register of members interests, he jointly owns, with his wife, two flats in Lambeth, London, which are rented out. Richard Newby, Baron Newby Richard Mark Newby, Lord Newby (born 14