Something to Answer For James Twinning in the twenty-first century

in the twenty-first century

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

is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work

The Hangover

England is at war with itself

Something to Answer For James Twinning in the twenty-first centuryWinner 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