• 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.




    • Nicolas Rothwell

    Nicolas Rothwell: The Red Highway

    Thursday, November 27th, 2008

    The cover of Nicolas Rothwell’s The Red Highway, which Black Inc will publish next May. The beautiful cover image is the painting Near Ruined City, by Angelina George. From the cover notes: A key to unlock the heart of the country This is the story of a quest — a journey down the red highway. [...]

    Black Inc win auction for Nicolas Rothwell’s The Red Highway

    Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

    Nicolas Rothwell’s new non-fiction manuscript, The Red Highway, has just been acquired by Black Inc in a strongly contested auction. The Red Highway is set in different parts of the north of Australia: Darwin, the Kimberley, the Centre, and the Pilbara, and is centred on ideas of friendship, loss and return.   Black Inc’s Chris [...]

    Nicolas Rothwell: Another Country

    Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

    Nicolas Rothwell’s highly-praised Another Country has just been released by Black Inc in B format with a  new cover. Nicolas is currently writing a new non-fiction work, an excerpt of which appears in Black Inc’s monthly magazine. The subject is tradition, loss and return in remote Australia, and it is divided into four chapters: they [...]

    Essay: A La Recherche

    Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

    BY NICOLAS ROTHWELL | A strange, despairing pleasure comes over us at the moment when we close, for the last time in this life, a great masterpiece that has lived with us and shaped our thoughts from adolescence into adulthood. This pleasure has a taut, bold energy, like all forms of renunciation: it is full [...]

    Essay: Butterflies

    Sunday, June 24th, 2007

    BY NICOLAS ROTHWELL | The happiest days of my childhood were spent in a resort of the Swiss Graubunden, where each afternoon the great political cartoonist Vicky, who was later to take his life, would draw for me a paper bestiary of dragons and winged monsters so fierce and fire-breathing they would guarantee whoever saw [...]

    Essay: On Writing

    Thursday, April 12th, 2007

    BY NICOLAS ROTHWELL | Pale autumn sunlight drifting through the trees, a murmur from the wavelets lapping at the shore, the call of a far-off kookaburra, the fitful moaning of a crested dove — how could one not be productive, set in such surrounds? And where could be more calming, more conducive to the writer’s [...]

    Nicolas Rothwell

    Thursday, April 12th, 2007

    Nicolas Rothwell is the author of the award-winning Wings of the Kite-Hawk and the novel Heaven and Earth. He is the northern correspondent for The Australian. In 2006, he won the Walkley Award for coverage of Indigenous Affairs. Nicolas Rothwell is available for interview For more information contact Anna Lensky on 03 9654 2000 or [...]

    Nicholas Rothwell: Another Country

    Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

    ‘One of the images of Northern and Central Australia that most often comes to me is … that of mosaic, a dance of broken, gleaming fragments: the landscape that varies in its unending, subtle rhythms: the human presences within the country that glint and catch the eye like metallic rooftops shining in the late sun.’ [...]