• 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.




    • Laura Bloom

    Laura Bloom: In the Mood

    Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    The beautiful cover for Laura Bloom’s novel, In the Mood, which is to be published by Viking/ Penguin Australia in February, 2010. It’s February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weather-board house in Summer Hill, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting. They haven’t seen each other for [...]

    Laura Bloom: In the Mood

    Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

    ANZ rights in Laura Bloom’s new novel, In the Mood, have just been sold to Penguin Australia. Executive Editor Rachel Scully describes it as a novel which is ‘compelling and heart-wrenching’ and ‘explores so many dilemmas facing women of today’. Penguin plan to publish in 2010. Home was her, Catherine, in her blue cotton dress, [...]