Something to Answer For James Twinning believing in nothing and caring

believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics

England is at war with itself

Born into poverty on the Black Sea

and possessed

a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer

Something to Answer For James Twinning believing in nothing and caringWinner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summoned there, to Egypt, by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. Having been found dead in the street, she is convinced he was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What of Leah Strauss, the mistress? And of the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for