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Combule Press is an independent micro-press dedicated to literary fiction, quiet stories, and character-driven narratives.
We publish books about memory, work, solitude, love, and the hidden emotional lives of ordinary people.
We believe that the most important lives are often the ones no one writes about.
Those are the lives we publish.
About
Combule Press is an independent micro-press dedicated to literary fiction, quiet stories, and character-driven narratives.
We publish books about memory, work, solitude, love, and the hidden emotional lives of ordinary people.
We believe that the most important lives are often the ones no one writes about.
Those are the lives we publish.
AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
The Bag of Earth and Salt
Stories of Quiet Lives and Unseen Tides
The Bag of Earth and Salt is a collection of linked stories that follow a man across different moments of his life — youth, work, love, solitude, and old age.
These stories are not about extraordinary events, but about ordinary days that slowly shape a life.
They are stories about memory, small choices, missed opportunities, friendships, work, and the quiet dignity of people who continue, even when no one is watching.
This is a book for readers who love atmospheric literary fiction, reflective stories, and character-driven narratives.
Giuliano Pellizzari
Giuliano Pellizzari is an Italian writer and storyteller.
He writes literary fiction focused on memory, time, work, solitude, and the hidden emotional lives of ordinary people.
His stories often follow characters across long periods of their lives, exploring how small decisions, daily routines, and quiet moments slowly shape who we become.
He believes that the most important stories are not about heroes, but about ordinary people who endure, work, love, lose, remember, and continue.
He is the founder of Combule Press, where he publishes literary fiction in English for an international audience.
Combule Catalogue
Astrid Klarisson
Some places we leave. Some places never leave us.
This collection of linked stories follows different characters across cities, countries, and years, connected by departures, returns, letters never sent, and lives imagined but never lived. Each story is a place on an invisible map — a map made of memory, regret, love, and time.
A Map of Places We Left is a quiet literary collection about distance, memory, and the lives we carry with us even when we think we have moved on.
Astrid Klarisson
A collection of stories set in small northern towns where winter lasts a long time and words are often left unspoken.
The characters in these stories are shopkeepers, teachers, mechanics, widows, and children growing up too slowly or too fast. Nothing extraordinary happens, and yet everything matters: a letter that arrives late, a walk in the snow, a conversation that changes the direction of a life.
Winter Light in Small Towns is a book about silence, endurance, kindness, and the quiet dignity of ordinary people.
Peter Elmiski
A quiet novel about memory, distance, and the places that continue to live inside us long after we leave them.
Set in a small riverside town, The House Near the River follows a man who returns to the place where he grew up after many years away. The house is almost empty now, the town has changed, and the river keeps moving as it always has. Through small encounters, old objects, and forgotten rooms, he begins to understand that some parts of life never really disappear — they simply wait for us to come back.
Egor Kominev
Some places we leave. Some places never leave us.
This collection of linked stories follows different characters across cities, countries, and years, connected by departures, returns, letters never sent, and lives imagined but never lived. Each story is a place on an invisible map — a map made of memory, regret, love, and time.
A Map of Places We Left is a quiet literary collection about distance, memory, and the lives we carry with us even when we think we have moved on.
MISSION
To publish books that carry depth without noise.
Combule Press exists for readers who still believe in atmosphere, language, and resonance. We are interested in stories that do not shout for attention, yet quietly alter the way the world is seen.
Editorial statement
We are drawn to books where earth, salt, labour, memory, travel, solitude, and human relationships become part of a larger emotional geography. The catalogue aims to be intimate, literary, and enduring.
We publish literary fiction
Character-driven
Atmospheric
Reflective
Quiet
Emotionally honest
Rooted in memory and time
Focused on ordinary lives
Written with simple but precise language
We are particularly interested in:
Linked short story collections
Short novels
Stories about work and everyday life
Stories about aging, memory, and time
Stories set in small towns, coastal places, countryside, forgotten cities
Stories where not much happens, but everything changes
We believe literature does not need to shout.
Sometimes it only needs to stay.
Contact us
If you'd like to submit your book, fill out the form and tell us your story. We'll read it.
Combule Press
Independent literary publishing in English.
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