• 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.




    • Raimond Gaita

    And the winner is … Romulus, My Father

    Friday, December 7th, 2007

    First-time director Richard Roxburgh’s film adaptation of Raimond Gaita’s critically-acclaimed memoir, Romulus, My Father, was crowned the best film of 2007 at the AFI awards dinner at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre last night. Eric Bana took out the best lead actor award and his co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee, 11, the young actor award. The film, which [...]

    Romulus, My Father on big screens in May

    Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

    Romulus, My Father, Raimond Gaita’s critically acclaimed memoir comes to the big screen in May. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father [...]

    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 [...]