• 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.




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    Gregory Rogers: The Hero of Little Street

    Saturday, July 10th, 2010

    Congratulations to Gregory Rogers, whose beautiful picture book, The Hero of Little Street, has received short listings for the 2010 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Picture Book of the Year Award, the NSW Premier’s Prize, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature, Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2010, and the 2009 Aurealis Award for [...]

    Margaret Wild & Nina Rycroft: No More Kisses

    Sunday, February 14th, 2010

    No More Kisses is the new picture book by Margaret Wild and Nina Rycroft, to be published by Little Hare in April, 2010.

    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.

    Five stars for Piglet

    Sunday, June 28th, 2009

    Margaret Hamilton awards five stars to Piglet and Granny the July issue of Bookseller & Publisher. There is no better combination in picture books for young children than the award-winning team of Margaret Wild and Stephen Michael King. Previous books Piglet and Mama and Piglet and Papa are already firm favourites, so this third book [...]

    Kirkus reviews Stephen Michael King’s Leaf

    Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

    Stephen Michael King’s wonderful picture book, Leaf, will shortly be published in the USA by Roaring Brook Press. Here’s a good first review from Kirkus. A curious, curiously subversive and very pretty wordless Australian import. A mop-headed child faces a momlike figure with scissors in her hands — definitely time for a haircut. The child, [...]

    Stephen Michael King: Never Ever Before

    Monday, February 9th, 2009

    Stephen Michael King’s new picture book, Never Ever Before, which Scholastic Australia will publish in July 2009. In the drifting, swirling land of small, Big is born. Big stands solid, strong and predictable, until the day a breeze bigger than ever before begins to blow… This is a story that celebrates the individual. Objects interact, [...]

    Gregory Rogers: The Hero of Little Street

    Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

    Gregory Rogers holds an advance copy of The Hero of Little Street, which Allen & Unwin will publish later this year. Escaping from a gang of bullies, our Boy slips into a grand old gallery – the perfect hiding place, full of mystery and treasures. Enchanted by the magic of painting and befriended by a [...]

    Peas on Earth

    Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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

    Margaret Wild & Julie Vivas: Puffling

    Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

    The Fiewel & Friends cover for the US edition of the picture book Puffling by Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas. Publication is scheduled for Autumn 2009. Puffling is a baby — small, white, and very hungry. Every day he waits in the burrow while his parents, Big Stripy Beak and Long Black Feather hunt for [...]

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