Fiction,Prize Winners,Reviews,The Booker Prize
June 12, 2025
The First Booker, Something to Answer For – decline and collapse in Suez
P.H. Newby’s Something to Answer For won the very first Booker Prize in 1969, but it’s largely forgotten today. Set during the Suez Crisis, this surreal and absorbing novel explores identity, colonial decline, and quiet disintegration — and it’s well worth rediscovering.
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