LONDON – Tash Aw wants to reinvent the historical epic. It had always been the Malaysian author’s ambition to write a “big family epic” in the vein of Rohinton Mistry and Vikram Seth ...

International interest came to Bourton-On-The-Water in Gloucestershire this month when a Dutch Old Master emerged from a family collection at Tayler & Fletcher (23.5% buyer’s premium).

“I’ve been an auctioneer for 30 years now and it took me two hours to sell 34 lots – so you get the idea of the interest and levels of bidders.” ...