Initially published in 1928, W. Somerset Maugham’s “Ashenden” is usually described as the first modern espionage novel. In reality, it’s a collection of linked stories based on the author’s actual ...

Raymond Chandler: “‘Ashenden’ is far ahead of any other spy story ever written… It reads as though there were always something vague and sinister just behind the curtain. In most of the others you are ...

LONDON — “I had not expected the great sense of peace and clarity of mind that has come with being a Catholic,” says Gavin Ashenden, speaking to the Register May 11. Given the global impact of the ...

Before Bond and his brutal swagger, Harry Palmer's modernist melancholy, and the short, balding but brilliant Smiley, there was Ashenden. Not for him the picaresque shenanigans of Rudyard Kipling's ...

In an interview with Raymond Arroyo, host of the World Over on EWTN, former Anglican bishop speaks about what compelled him to Catholicism and what threats Christianity faces today. Raymond Arroyo of ...