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
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year announced on 5 September 2008, was "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers", the 1996 winner. Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year The "Bookseller"/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally known as the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title at the Frankfurt Book Fair, commonly known as the Diagram Prize for short, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to a book with an unusual title. The prize is named after the "Diagram Group", an information and graphics company based in London, and "The Bookseller", a British trade magazine for the publishing industry.