COMBRAY HOUSE PUBLISHING

COMBRAY HOUSE PUBLISHING

We’re an independent publisher in Western Massachusetts, focused on literary nonfiction, memoir, music, and debut novels.

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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.

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New From Combray House

  • Oman Zaman: Traces of the Past

    By Margaret Kapenga Shurdom

    I grew up in Oman while my missionary parents served in Muscat from 1948–1983, and though I later studied abroad, my deep love for the country has always drawn me back. This book shares glimpses of old Oman through my family’s photos, letters, and memories, preserving the heritage and beauty that many younger Omanis may not know.

  • 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.

  • Harvesting Legacy: A Farm's Journey

    By Michael S. Hutton-Woodland

    Harvesting Legacy: A Farm’s Journey follows an aging farmer's struggle to choose between selling his family’s historic land to developers or preserving its legacy through conservation, a decision that will shape his family's future and the character of the entire community.

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