Independent Publisher

Riverton Press is a publishing house based in Sydney, NSW. We publish poetry, memoir, family history, local history and works in translation.

Mandala, Huichol art, Mexico.

Riverton Press

was founded by Jacqueline Buswell in 2018, and offers publishing and translation services.

Jacqueline is a Sydney-based writer, translator, poet and publisher. She has worked as a journalist and taught English as a foreign language. Jacqueline is a member of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT).

Ginninderra Press published her first book of poetry, Song of a Journeywoman, in 2013.

Her poem City Suite was presented in a concert performance for piano and violin by Duo Deconet in 2015 in Sydney and Canberra.

Publications

Print versions of our titles are available worldwide through PRINT ON DEMAND, and can be ordered at book retail outlets or online. E-book versions for e-book reading devices and for Kindle are also available online. Simply do an online search for the book title / author.

Further information from: info@rivertonpress.com

Latest Blogs

On Writing NO WAY BACK

By Nathalie Apouchtine   Every family has fascinating stories from the past. Unfortunately many of us do not become interested in them until it is too late and the relatives who could tell us those stories have passed away. In exploring my family’s past for No Way Back I have been both unfortunate – and fortunate. I never knew my grandparents: three died before I was born, the fourth lived on another continent. But I have been lucky in that several relatives in my grandparents’ generation left behind accounts of their lives and times: diaries, memoirs, letters, photos… Not a replacement for being able to speak directly to my grandparents, but a treasure trove nonetheless. I was able to interview members of my parents’ generation, in Canada, France and Russia. They described their own experiences and witnessing of historic events and they also told me more about their parents’ lives

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After migration, is there a way back??

Migration is the theme of our times. Migration and displacement. On the news daily, and central to the two books launched by Riverton Press earlier this year. In one case, the family members carried the title refugee, in the other, the protagonist is a voluntary migrant. At the launch of Nathalie Apouchtine’s No Way Back, Revolution and Exile, Russia and Beyond, a member of the public questioned the author about the book title: is there really no way back? Each migrant, each refugee, each traveller will have their own answer to this question, though a brief glance at world population patterns shows that there is rarely a way back. Nathalie considered the question in the context of her family, who belonged to the group known as Russian émigrés, who left Russia after the 1917 Revolution. Some members of her family did go back to the Soviet Union, believing that the

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Feast with theatre music and dance

We arrive, we thought to lunch, but instead of tables and chairs we see just chairs in two sets of rows, facing each other in a long wide oval. We mill around, we sit, we see the musicians who wait, like us. For someone to arrive. In due course, the musicians begin, and they play with each theatrical presentation of each dish. Two sisters speak in Arabic and English about making bread. They sit by a doorway. Talk is part of bread making for women as they form and pound the dough, talk about the kids, the neighbours, and beating harder when they complain about their husbands. “Careful, you’re beating my bread, not your husband!” Alissar speaks of Za’atar, she paces along the centre and hands out some of the herb, then works with a mallet-sized wooden pestle to grind some. She tells us the wild herb that grows among

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Two book launches coming up in Sydney

Two new books from Riverton Press will be launched in mid-February: a summer Sunday afternoon. a Thursday evening. If you’re interested in No Way Back, Revolution and Exile: Russia and Beyond by Nathalie Apouchtine, come to the NSW Writers Centre in Callan Park on 16 February. Nathalie’s book is based on a lifetime of family stories and many years of research into her family’s experiences in Russia and in exile. The cover was designed by Leonie Lane of Booyong Design. Contact info@rivertonpress.com for more information. If you’re interested in The Legend of Busby, or the original Italian version, La Leggenda di Busby, by Vittoria Pasquini, visit the webpage of the Italian Institute of Culture (in York Street, Sydney), and make your booking. La Leggenda was translated into English by Gino Moliterno, and the cover is based on an illustration by the author’s granddaughter, Elena Palombi Luff.

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You can read these books soon

Throughout the year of 2024, Riverton Press has been thinking about Rome and Russia, migration and exile. Both our upcoming books speak of migration. Sure, people have always moved around the planet, but today we have unprecedented levels of displacement. Mostly due of course to the same four old horsemen. (Do they never tire?) Our two new books are very different, one the result of deep family history research, the other a personal memoir that examines the self through life in a “sandstone castle”. Both books are written by women born in Europe who have migrated to Australia, one via France and Canada, one via Italy and Kenya. No Way Back, Revolution and Exile: Russia and Beyond by Nathalie Apouchtine spans three generations, three continents and more than 100 years. Her family left Russia following the 1917 Revolution, some travelled alone, some in groups, many lived in France, very few of

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Considering the Riverina

Some months ago, Voices of Women Inc called for texts by women about the Riverina. Not just any text, but 800-word stories to be read and acted in performance, short monologues by women of the Riverina on Wiradjuri Country. Themes were to be based on personal experience with something about resilience. Voices of Women is a not-for-profit organisation that presents new work by Australian women writers by powerful women actors, and collaborates with artists and musicians. https://voiceswomen.com/ I’m a woman from the Riverina, so I thought I’d “have a go”, but when I finished my 800 words I realised that I had not written what you would call a story. I sent it off anyway by the due date, with a note saying I realised it wasn’t on cue, and sure enough, it was not what they wanted for personal monologue performance. So I’ve decided to post the text here as

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