• 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.




  • Young Adult

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    Four stars for The Phar Lap Mystery

    Saturday, August 21st, 2010

    The Bookseller +Publisher has given a four-star (Excellent) rating to My Australian Story: The Phar Lap Mystery by Sophie Masson, published by Scholastic. In 1930 someone tried to shoot Phar Lap, and in her latest novel, Sophie Masson splices fact and fiction together seamlessly to present a narrative that is both informative and entertaining. The [...]

    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. [...]

    James Moloney: The Book from Baden Dark

    Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

    One of Australia’s most respected and awarded children’s authors is back with the exciting conclusion to the bestselling trilogy that began with The Book of Lies. It is James Moloney’s The Book from Baden Dark. The combined sales for the first two books of the phenomenal trilogy total over 60,000 copies – find out why! [...]

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

    Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

    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 [...]

    Phillip Gwynne: Swerve

    Monday, August 3rd, 2009

    Phillip Gwynne’s exciting new young adult novel Swerve, is to be published by Penguin Australia in September. The Monaro was a spaceship hurtling through the inter-galactic, a sub-marine slicing through Atlantic depths. Inside, the milky light from the dashboard; outside, headlights punching holes in the outback night” 16-year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. [...]

    Isabelle Merlin: Cupid’s Arrow

    Saturday, August 1st, 2009

    The cover for Cupid’s Arrow, the new young adult novel by Isabelle Merlin, which is soon to be published by Random House Australia I am running. Running very fast. Running for my life. The breath is whistling in my throat, my heart’s pounding, my feet are on fire. Someone’s after me. I can’t see who [...]

    James Moloney: The Book From Baden Dark

    Friday, March 20th, 2009

    The cover of The Book From Baden Dark, the final novel in James Moloney’s bestselling Book Trilogy, which will be published by HarperCollins Australia in June.                

    Phillip Gwynne: Swerve

    Monday, February 16th, 2009

    Phillip Gwynne has recently delivered the manuscript of his new young adult novel, Swerve, which is to be published by Penguin Australia in September, 2009. With only days to go before his audition for entry to the Conservatorium, sixteen-year-old musical prodigy and part-time nerd Hugh Twycross is convinced by Poppy, his newly-discovered grandfather, to go [...]

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