• 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.




    • Cheryl Orsini

    Trudie Trewin & Cheryl Orsini: Wibbly Wobbly Street

    Thursday, January 21st, 2010

    The cover of Wibbly Wobbly Street, by Trudie Trewin and Cheryl Orsini, a picture book to be published by Scholastic Australia in May, 2010.            

    Cheryl Orsini: The ABC Book of Transport

    Saturday, August 1st, 2009

    One of Cheryl Orsini’s beautiful illustrations for The ABC Book of Transport, which is to be published in February, 2010.

    Peas on Earth

    Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

    Cheryl Orsini’s 2008 Christmas card, Peas on Earth.

    Work in progress: Cheryl Orsini’s Look Baby

    Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

    An illustration from Look Baby, a new picture book which Cheryl Orsini is illustrating (text by Penny Matthews). It will be published by Working Title Press in 2009.

    Cheryl Orsini: The ABC Book of Lullabies

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    Cheryl Orsini’s illustration for The ABC Book of Lullabies, which will be published in October, 2008.

    Cheryl Orsini: Fredrik’s Gone Bananas

    Thursday, December 6th, 2007

    Some of Cheryl Orsini’s beautiful illustrations for Fredrik’s Gone Bananas, which is to be published by Scholastic Press Australia in 2008. Click the detail below for a larger version

    Natalie Jane Prior: The Minivers

    Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

    Natalie Jane Prior is having a very exciting 2007, with Australian and New Zealand rights to her four-book modern fantasy series, The Minivers, having just been bought by Penguin Australia in a strongly contested auction. Glamorous sisters Rosamund and Emily Miniver are rich, famous, and on the run — and they’re only two feet tall. [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: Minnie Pearl

    Thursday, May 17th, 2007

    Here is the cover of Minnie Pearl, a beautiful new picture book written by Natalie Jane Prior, and illustrated by Cheryl Orsini. Its to be published by ABC Books this September.          

    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.