• 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.




    • Author notes

    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 [...]

    Marshall Browne

    Sunday, March 25th, 2007

    Marshall Browne is the author of twelve published books of fiction. For thirty-seven years, Browne was a banker — in Australia, Hong Kong, England and Bhutan. He also served as a commando in the Australian forces, and as a paratrooper in the British forces. Several of his books have been published in the US. The [...]

    James Moloney

    Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

    James Moloney is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded children’s book authors. His novel Dougy was named an Honour Book in the Older Reader category of the CBC awards in 1994; Gracey was named an Honour Book in the Older Reader category of the CBC awards in 1995; and The House on River Terrace [...]

    Skye Rogers

    Monday, March 19th, 2007

    Skye Rogers Illustrator and non-fiction writer Her books include The Cook’s Garden, Jobs for the Girls, Thirty Something and Bend of the River. Her memoir Drink Me was published by HarperCollins Australia.

    Raimond Gaita

    Friday, March 16th, 2007

    Raimond Gaita was born in 1946 in Germany. He is Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College University of London, and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. His memoir Romulus, My Father won the 1998 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Gaita’s other books include, Good And Evil: An Absolute Conception, A Common Humanity: Thinking [...]

    Cheryl Orsini

    Thursday, March 15th, 2007

    Cheryl Orsini Talented children’s book illustrator. Currently working on The Dolls series and picture book Minnie Pearl for ABC Books, and on texts for Scholastic Australia and Working Title Press.

    Alex Buzo

    Thursday, March 15th, 2007

    Alex Buzo Estate Ingenious playwright, novelist, humorist, travel writer, and sportsman. Norm and Ahmed (also known as Normie and Tuan), Macquarie, Coralie Lansdown Says No, Pacific Union, and many other plays; The Search for Harry Allway and Prue Flies North (novels); Tautology, The Longest Game, Kiwese, Legends of the Baggy Green (humour and sports).

    Catherine Jinks

    Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

    Catherine is the author of many award-winning, popular books for children and adults. She was born in Brisbane, grew up in Sydney and Papua New Guinea and became a writer because she loves reading. She also loves history, films, TV and gossip. Married to a Canadian with whom she has a young daughter, Catherine lives [...]

    Les Murray

    Monday, March 12th, 2007

    Les Murray is Australia’s leading poet. He lives in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. He has published some thirty books in Australia, and his work has been translated into sixteen languages. In 1996 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize, in 1999 the Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry, and in 2004 the Mondello [...]