Audiobooks narrated by Christine Rendel

Public Health: A Very Short Introduction

"Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or departments of public health, whilst international agencies such as the World Health Organization promote public health policies, and regional organizations such as the European Union have public health funding and policies. But what do we mean when we speak about 'public health?' In this Very Short Introduction, Virginia Berridge explores the areas which fall under the remit of public health, and explains how the individual histories of different countries have come to cause great differences in the perception of the role and responsibilities of public health organizations. Thus, in the United States litigation on public health issues is common, but state involvement is less, while some Scandinavian countries have a tradition of state involvement or even state ownership of industries such as alcohol in connection with public health. In its narrowest sense, public health can refer to the health of a population, the longevity of individual members, and their freedom from disease, but it can also be anticipatory, geared to the prevention of illness, rather than simply the provision of care and treatment. In the way public health deals with healthy as well as sick people it is therefore a separate concept from health services, which deal with the sick population. Drawing on a wide range of international examples, Berridge demonstrates the central role of history to understanding the amorphous nature of public health today."

Virginia Berridge (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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C.G. Jung's Collected Works: The Basics

"This new introduction to Jung's Collected Works—written in lively and accessible style—provides a comprehensive guide to key concepts in analytical (Jungian) psychology while charting the creative evolution of Jung's thought through his own words. Invaluable to both beginners and those more experienced with Jungian theory, this book provides tables listing key readings for further study of the Collected Works, clear explication of fundamental principles, chapter summaries, prompts for deepening a critical engagement with Jung's texts, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading. This text will be an invaluable introduction for those coming to the Collected Works for the first time as well as a useful reference for listeners familiar with the collection."

Ann Yeoman, Kevin Lu (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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The Carter File

"Julie Carter was celebrating her high school graduation with five friends on a rainy weekend in 1985. Her murder is the third case that Andrew Cheatham presents to his cold case unit. One of the five people at the cottage with Julie killed her, but, more than a decade later, no one has ever been arrested. Bessie is determined to get justice for poor Julie, but she's also busy with other things. Christmas at the Castle is less than a month away, and her friend, Grace, is worried about a friend of hers who has gone missing. Can Bessie help Andrew and the others work out what happened in the luxury cottage during graduation weekend? Can she find Grace's friend? And can she talk some sense into Andy Caine, who seems determined to marry the wrong woman?"

Diana Xarissa (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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The Bernhard File

"After a surprisingly successful first investigation, Andrew Cheatham's cold case unit is considering murder this time around. No one knew that Paul Bernhard was in New York City. No one knows why he was brutally murdered. No one knows where to find the woman he was meant to be meeting on the night he died.  Trying to keep her mind on murder, Bessie finds herself getting distracted by the idea that someone might be staying in one of the supposedly vacant holiday cottages near her home. Two people have already been murdered in that particular cottage. The last thing Bessie wants is to find another body.  Can Bessie help Andrew and the rest of the cold case unit work out what happened to Paul? Can she find out who has been staying in the empty holiday cottage? And does she even want to know how to play Prisoners of Cardavar?"

Diana Xarissa (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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The Adams File

"Bessie is both excited and apprehensive about her new role in Andrew Cheatham's cold case unit. When the first case involves a missing five-year-old who may well have been murdered by her own father, Bessie has even more second thoughts.  As if Andrew's cold case weren't enough to keep her busy, Sandra, the young woman who works at the shop near Bessie's house, has just been accused of stealing from her employer. Sandra is desperate to clear her name, and adamant that Bessie not involve the police. Can Bessie work with her friends and the two Scotland Yard detectives on the cold case unit to work out what really happened to little Rachel Adams? Can she help Sandra clear her name and find out who has really been stealing from the shop? Or is she in over her head, working with police detectives who don't seem at all interested in her opinion? "

Diana Xarissa (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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The Cult of Flowers: The Curiosity Club of St Foy Book 4

M. K. Jones (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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The 9am Dog: The Curiosity Club of St Foy Book 3

"The small seaside town of St Foy in Cornwall is ablaze with excitement. The newly elected Member of Parliament has chosen St Foy as the base for his constituency office. His arrival coincides with the discovery of a body in a derelict cottage on the outskirts of the town. A natural death—or is it? For one member of the Curiosity Club, both events foreshadow unwanted disclosures: a hidden agenda of one member of the new MP's entourage and the return of dark secrets, long suppressed but never forgotten. It begins with the arrival of a dog, at 9am each day for three days, as foretold told in a childhood tale of a fictitious dog that will rescue the heroine of its story. This time, the dog is real. The Curiosity Club must find a way to bring truth and lies together, to discover why past and present have fused, and prevent the shame and exposure of one of their precious members"

M. K. Jones (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë: ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S ‘BEST BOOKS TO DIP INTO THIS SUMMER’

"Bloomsbury presents This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz, read by Christine Rendel The first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades. Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't know about her — most of her papers were destroyed after her death. But as Deborah Lutz explores in this, one of the first biographies of Emily in 20 years, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire. Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art. This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister). Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination."

Deborah Lutz (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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Emily and Star: The Curiosity Club of St Foy Book 2

"It's mid-Winter in the Cornish seaside town of St Foy. In the midst of a family birthday party Emily Duggan, missing for three years and presumed dead after murdering her best friend Star Bright, arrives unannounced. To the bewilderment and shock of her family, Emily insists she didn't do it and has an alibi, but refuses to answer any questions. Led by Belle Harrington, the Curiosity Club, including Emily's aunt Bette, start their own investigation to find the real culprit, as the police re-open the unsolved mystery of Star Bright's murder. As the case progresses, old, uncomfortable secrets re-surface. Who was the real Star Bright? Could finding the truth about her past reveal her killer? If her killer wasn't Emily, could it have been one of the four students with whom Emily and Star shared accommodation at the eerie, now abandoned house on the Moor nicknamed 'Bedlam Heights.' Or was it another family member? Or someone from Star's bizarre past? Belle and the Curiosity Club pose these and many more uncomfortable questions, as certain residents of the town become quietly but increasingly determined the case will never be solved."

M. K. Jones (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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All Gone: The Curiosity Club of St Foy Book 1

"At a reunion of old school pupils and friends, recently retired Belle Harrington overhears a story about a gang of seven bullies, who blighted her life decades earlier. Over the course of twenty-five years, six of the seven have died or disappeared. One every five years, three months after each reunion. All seemingly accidental. Co-incidence . . . or something else? Working reluctantly with the only remaining member of the gang, and with the next anniversary imminent, Belle sets out to discover if there has been something sinister at work. Her investigation uncovers long kept secrets, lies and deception, as she homes in on the truth of what really occurred, and unleashes a nightmare that could destroy her new life in the Cornish town of St Foy."

M. K. Jones (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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Fonseca: A Novel

"Named a Top 10 Historical Fiction Book of 2025 by the New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Kirkus, and the Chicago Tribune Biblioracle Named a Best Historical Fiction Book and Best Audio Book of the Year by Bookpage A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Kane's remarkable excavation of this interlude, including real letters from Valpy, drips with juicy conflict and detail." -Los Angeles Times "A fable with heart and a searching investigation into what makes a marriage endure.' -Boston Globe 'A marvel of sharp concision.' -Wall Street Journal "A daring book…fresh and beautiful." -Chicago Tribune The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald's husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a letter from two elderly sisters named Delaney, distant relations with a silver mine, who dangle the possibility of an inheritance, she recognizes it as a creative and practical lifeline. Jessica Francis Kane's brilliantly imagined Fonseca fictionalizes Penelope's real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in pursuit of this legacy. She leaves her two-year-old, Tina, with relatives and sails for New York with her six-year-old, Valpy, in tow. From there, mother and son take a bus all the way to . . . Fonseca. But when they arrive, nothing goes to plan. There are others vying for the Delaney money, and for three months, from Day of the Dead to Candlemas, Penelope must navigate a quixotic household and guide her impressionable son. More and more people frequent the house: an ambitious American couple, various local entrepreneurs and artists (including Edward Hopper and his wife, Jo), and finally a handsome stranger who claims he is a Delaney. With heart, humor, and a deep understanding of her subject that has characterized the range of her work her whole career, Kane (whose work "could have been written by Jane Austen's great great-great-granddaughter" -Oprah Daily) has written much more than an homage: Fonseca is an enthralling world of its own as well as a stunning fictionalization of a season in Fitzgerald's life. © 2025 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY"

Jessica Francis Kane (Author), Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Christine Rendel, Jessica Francis Kane, Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator)

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Immeasurably More: Flying for the Way-maker

"The sounds of heavy gunfire ripped the air apart. Each new volley of shots made me jump. . . 'Get the children to safety!' someone yelled. When Liz Parker was growing up in a Liverpool vicarage, she never in her wildest dreams imagined that she would one day grow up to marry a missionary pilot and eventually serve with him in Uganda. This is the incredible story of their family's travels, from their four-year preparation in South Africa, to the sun-drenched land of Tanzania, the unexpected conflict of South Sudan and the fast-moving busyness of Kenya. Follow their journey, through each new country, through every up and down of family life, and meet inspiring people along the way. Through all the peaks and valleys, you'll discover their dependence on a way-making, promise-keeping God, who has done immeasurably more than they could have ever asked or imagined."

Liz Parker (Author), Christine Rendel (Narrator)

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