COMBRAY HOUSE PUBLISHING
COMBRAY HOUSE PUBLISHING
We’re an independent publisher in Western Massachusetts, focused on literary nonfiction, memoir, music, and debut novels.
The Story of Combray House Books…
Four decades into a successful career as a journalist, editor, teacher and best-selling author, Carl Vigeland became a publisher with the creation of Combray House Books, which he launched in 2019. Specializing in first novels, memoir, and topical non-fiction, Combray House has quickly grown into the literary home of more than twenty authors. To his work as publisher, Carl brings a curatorial commitment borne out of his expertise as both writer and educator. He and his team work passionately to produce carefully edited, beautifully designed hardcover, paperback, and digital books.
New From Combray House
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Traditional Weaving in Oman
By by Jay and Marjory Kapenga
Omani rugs and woven crafts are a beautiful part of the country’s cultural heritage, but the tradition is slowly disappearing due to modernization, imported machine-made textiles, and changing economic opportunities. This book by longtime Oman residents Jay and Marjory Kapenga documents the country’s traditional weaving techniques, looms, terminology, regional variations, and finished works through detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs, preserving this important artistic tradition for future generations.
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The Red Hotel: Tribute to a Lost World
By by Lita Slutsky Newman Moses (Author), Daniel Noah Moses (Preface)
TThe Red Hotel: Tribute to a Lost World is a vivid memoir by Lita “Slutsky” Newman Moses, offering an intimate glimpse into life at The Arrowhead Lodge, a left-wing “Borsht Belt” hotel of the 1940s and ’50s, through the eyes of the proprietor’s daughter. Blending personal coming-of-age reflections with a larger meditation on hope, democracy, and belonging, it captures the story of one immigrant Jewish family and an era now lost to time.
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Shovels & Chandeliers
By Laura Chester
Laura Chester has consistently been praised for her hypnotic literary technique, liberating ethic and feminine metaphysic, with desire pulsating in the everyday. A collaged selection of prose and poetry presents her at her very best, confirming what the poet Robert Creeley had to say — "The lucid grace of Laura Chester's writing is always a singular pleasure."
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