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
In the Light of What We Know – but for our century.” Rebecca Mead of "The New Yorker" wrote that the novel was "talky and intellectual, while also unfolding a riveting drama: a deeply satisfying book," and that it was remarkable, “a 21st-century novel written with the ambition of scope of a 19th-century novel, and bearing the seriousness of purpose of a 20th-century one.” "In the Light of What We Know" earned its author the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain's oldest literary prize. It was long-listed for the Orwell Prize 2015, the Guardian First Book award 2014, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2015,