Oxfam books £37,200 boost
OXFAM enjoyed its biggest windfall at auction after a book donated to one of its charity shops sold for £37,200.
The book entitled A Trip to the Highlands of Viti Levu was donated to a branch in Devon and documents scientist Gerard Andsell's 1881 search for his long-lost brother, who was thought to be coffee-planting in Fiji.
He was eventually tracked down in the island of Viti Levu.
Only a few copies of the self-published book were made, and only one has appeared at auction before, selling for 190 Australian dollars (114) in 1977.