• 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.




    • Catherine Jinks

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    Top Ten Best Book listing for The Reformed Vampire Support Group

    Thursday, January 21st, 2010

    Congratulations to Catherine Jinks, whose novel, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, has just been selected by the prestigious American Library Association as one of the 2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults.

    Catherine Jinks: The Genius Wars

    Thursday, October 1st, 2009

    The Genius Wars, the final novel in Catherine Jinks’s internationally successful Genius Trilogy, is to be published by Allen & Unwin on October 26 2009. In a thrilling conclusion to the Genius Trilogy, Cadel must think like a criminal mastermind. After abandoning a life of lies and mistrust, fifteen-year-old Cadel has finally found his niche. [...]

    Catherine Jinks: The Reformed Vampire Support Group – Nina’s Story

    Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

    The Bologna Book Fair revisited

    Friday, April 24th, 2009

    By CATHERINE JINKS | The Bologna Book Fair isn’t about writing. It’s about product – or ‘content’, as they say in the movie business. Writers don’t really belong at the fair; in fact there seems to be a genuine concern in some quarters that the vast array of ‘product’ will depress and discourage even the [...]

    Catherine Jinks: The Reformed Vampire Support Group gets starred review

    Friday, January 30th, 2009

    Starred review in Publishers Weekly for The Reformed Vampire Support Group Catherine Jinks’s new young adult novel, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, is to be published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in April, and in the USA in May by Harcourt. Here’s a great first review from the US Publisher’s Weekly. The Reformed Vampire [...]

    Kirkus praise for Babylonne

    Thursday, November 20th, 2008

    Here’s an early review from Kirkus Reviews for Catherine Jinks’ Babylonne. A sharp-tongued protagonist enlivens a medieval tapestry stuffed with mysterious antecedents, religious persecution and gory violence, in this irresistible followup to Jinks’ beloved quartet about Pagan Kidrouk. Babylonne, the daughter he never knew, has every reason to believe the heretical teaching that this world [...]

    Catherine Jinks: Babylonne

    Monday, October 13th, 2008

    The fifth title in Catherine Jinks’s internationally successful Pagan series, Babylonne (titled Pagan’s Daughter in Australia) is to be published in the USA by Candlewick Press in November. Here is a good first review, from Booklist, by the respected Michael Cart: Jinks continues her cycle of excellent historical novels. In this fifth volume, she introduces [...]

    Catherine Jinks live

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    More good news for Catherine Jinks with her new Young Adult novel, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, which is to be published in April/May, 2009 by Allen & Unwin in Australia, and Harcourt Children’s Books in the USA. Further rights have now been sold to the novel, and its sequel, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group. [...]

    Genius Squad gets ‘gripping’ review

    Friday, July 4th, 2008

    Readers who loved Evil Genius will find this sequel as gripping, devilish and wonderfully dark as its predecessor. What made that first book so good was the author’s delivery of a complex, layered protagonist in the young Cadel Piggot and the world of criminal masterminds in which he lives and learns, a world he eventually [...]

    Catherine Jinks: Genius Squad trailer

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    Here’s the book trailer for Catherine Jinks’s Genius Squad, from her US publisher, Harcourt Children’s Books.

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