Something to Answer For certain he is really dead, then apparently actually does so. At the end of the novel, though it is uncertain how much of what was related actually took place or how much was a fever or drunken dream, Townrow comes to believe that a citizen is not responsible for the morality of his government and has only himself and his own actions 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
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.