• About

    Margaret Connolly has been a literary agent for more than twenty years, after giving up a career as a lawyer in the mid-1980s.

    She set up her own business in 1992, and since then has developed a client list which resembles a roll-call of Australia's finest novelists, poets, dramatists, non-fiction authors, film-makers, children's writers and illustrators.

    She works from home, on a desk which is covered with papers and one very useful computer.

    The "Associates" in her company's title consist of her husband, three children and a dog named Arthur.




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    Nicolas Rothwell: Wings of the Kite-Hawk re-issued

    Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

    Nicolas Rothwell’s Wings of the Kite-Hawk is being re-issued with a new foreword by Pico Iyer and a new preface by the author. ‘If the traveller’s aim is to find wonders and treasures not before our eyes that others have overlooked, then this is truly a hidden classic.’—Pico Iyer Wings of the Kite-Hawk is unlike [...]

    Claire Carmichael: Gotta B

    Monday, August 3rd, 2009

    No SMS, no email, no Facebook: in the digital age, who are you when you’re disconnected from your friends? Claire Carmichael is one of Australia’s leading authors for young adults. Her novel Ads R Us was a CBCA Notable Book and featured in Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great Reads for Teenagers by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen [...]

    SBS commissions Top End crime drama Dusty

    Sunday, June 28th, 2009

    SBS has commissioned new production company TMG Media to develop a 13-part crime drama series based on the character Detective Dusty Buchanon, star of AFI-winner Phillip (Australian Rules) Gwynne’s novel The Build Up. Dusty will be set in Australia’s Top End, in and around Darwin, the self-styled Capital of the Second Chance. SBS’s Director of [...]

    Work in progress: Never Ever Before

    Thursday, December 11th, 2008

    An illustration from Stephen Michael King’s new picture book, Never Ever Before, which is to be published by Scholastic Australia in the second half of 2009.

    New Australian novel helping to ease financial pain

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    Other People’s Diaries by Kathy Webb has been striking a chord with readers across the country by testing whether it is possible to find happiness — not with a bigger house or a new car, but by enjoying the small pleasures we encounter in everyday life. The author’s website has been inundated with emails from [...]

    Good first review for The Minivers

    Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

    From The Australian Bookseller & Publisher: The Minivers: On the Run (Natalie Jane Prior, Puffin, $14.95 pb, ISBN 9780143303664, September) Rosamund, in her sequinned dress, acknowledges her fans as she arrives at a hotel for her 14th birthday party. What girl reader would not be entranced by this opening scene? Rosamund and Emily are Minivers, [...]