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Saturday 01 February 1997 00:02 GMT

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The winner of the pounds 150-worth of books from The Folio Society will be announced next weekend. The challenge: to name the best books of the last fifty years. Is this the line up which will coincide closest to the top ten nominated by literary editor Boyd Tonkin?

1984, George Orwell. Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally. History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene. Collected Poems, Philip Larkin. Collected Poems, Seamus Healey. Lord of the Flies, William Golding. The Story of Art, Ernest Gombuch. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway. Dr Zhivago, Boris Paternak. (From Barbara Brown, Stroud, Glos)

Find out next Saturday.

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