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
P. H. B. Lyon Bureau to find jobs for ex-public school boys. In 1918 he published a volume of poetry, "Songs of Youth & War", and in 1923 "Turn Fortune". In 1931 a selection of his verse was published as "P. H. B. Lyon" in the Augustan Books of Poetry series. Poems by Lyon were anthologized in the following collections: P. H. B. Lyon Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon MC (1893–1986) was a 20th-century British poet and educator, a winner of the Newdigate Prize and headmaster of Rugby School from 1931 to 1948. Lyon studied at Oriel College, Oxford, publishing a number of lyrics in