James Michael Vernon

The Three Moons Realm: Magic

A glimpse into the lives of magic users in the Three Moons Realm. These five short stories follow a variety of characters that reside in the Three Moons Realm or the Abyss, a connected world created by one of the gods of the realm. Each story is a small look at the lives, locations, cultures, and ...

Bound to the Abyss

Book One of a Two Part Story Arc and the First in a Series Ven Khilada is a land of magic and gods. Settlements abound, both large and small, each with a life of their own and hidden secrets. Except Rottwealth. A backwater village, surrounded by mountains and ignored by most, nothing of merit ever...

Hunger: A Modern History

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told. At the beginning of the nineteenth ce...

Hunt for Justice: A Bounty Earned

Esmerelda Ciantar was the eldest child of the most powerful of the Hawkpurse families. Her family's history could be traced back before the Plague and could have been the very first Hawkpurse family in existence. Trained from an early age to eventually take over the family business, Ezzy spent the f...

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Brita...

Descent Into Darkness (Bound to the Abyss Book 2)

Book Two of a Two Part Story Arc and the Second in the Series Ean Sangrave’s friends are gone. At least, his human ones are. Zin, as always, is by his side. Years of advice and getting Ean out of trouble has earned him the title of Ean’s closest friend, Joining them now is Azalea the Yulari, anot...

Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, C. 1815-1867

Re-Reading the Constitution : New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century

Hunger: A Modern History

James Vern

James Vernon (16461727) was an English politician and Secretary of State for both the Northern and the Southern Departments during the reign of William III.