• 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.




    • Childrens books

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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 [...]

    Lian Tanner: The Keepers Trilogy

    Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

    It has been an exciting twelve months for Tasmanian children’s author, Lian Tanner, as these items from the Publishers Lunch website show: June 5, 2009 Children’s: Fantasy Lian Tanner’s Museum of Thieves, the first in a trilogy about a young girl who escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains [...]

    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.            

    Natalie Jane Prior: The Minivers on the Run

    Monday, September 21st, 2009

    The cover for Natalie Jane Prior’s The Minivers on the Run, which is to be published by Marion Lloyd at Scholastic UK in February, 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 [...]

    Edrei Cullen: Clearheart

    Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

    The cover for Clearheart, Edrei Cullen’s sequel to Flitterwig. Clearheart, will be published by Scholastic Press in June. Ella Montgomery is a Flitterwig — part human, part magical. And not just any Flitterwig. She is the Clearheart — a girl with a special destiny, who can perform magic that no other Flitterwig can. To foil [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: Minivers Fight Back

    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

    The cover for Natalie Jane Prior’s new novel, Minivers Fight Back, the second title in the Minivers series, to be published by Penguin Australia in August.  The Minivers are in danger. They’ve lost their home. They’ve lost their possessions. And they nearly lost their lives. Now they’re ready to fight back … Miniature celebrities Rosamund [...]

    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, [...]

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