• 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.




    • Memoirs

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    Christopher Koch: The Many-Coloured Land in print again

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Christopher Koch’s acclaimed memoir of Ireland, The Many-Coloured Land, is to be re-issued by Random House Australia in November, 2008. When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much [...]

    Rave reviews roll in for The After Life

    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

    Kathleen Stewart’s wonderful memoir — The After Life — is continuing to attract rave reviews, and here are some excerpts: ‘…disturbing and compulsively readable. …This is an extraordinarily powerful book. …It will tear at your heart.’ Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald ‘The After Life is dark and troubled but so well done it is hard [...]

    Kathleen Stewart: The After Life

    Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

    “We were a happy family — if you don’t count the divorce, the drugs, the madness, and the suicide.” The After Life will be published on May 1, 2008. Kathleen Stewart has published novels, short stories, and two collections of poems, and has been widely admired and praised for her writing. Yet nothing she has [...]

    Simon Capp: A Very Italian Affair

    Thursday, December 20th, 2007

    Simon Capp is a Japanese translator who took his wife and two young children over to Italy on a 16-month working holiday in 2003. Their rollercoaster ride is recounted in hilarious detail in A Very Italian Affair, which has just been acquired by New Holland for publication in mid-2008. A Very Italian Affair tells the [...]

    Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    The cover for the Australian edition of Kate Jennings’s beautiful memoir, Stanley and Sophie, which will be published by Random House in May, 2008.                  

    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 [...]

    Kathleen Stewart, a cover evolves

    Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

    Evolution of a cover. The revised cover for Kathleen Stewart’s The After Life. See the previous version here.                     

    Kathleen Stewart: The After Life

    Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

    The cover of Kathleen Stewart’s wonderful memoir The After Life, which will be published by Random House Australia next year.                       

    Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie

    Sunday, May 13th, 2007

    Prize-winning novelist, poet and essayist Kate Jennings often combines all three of these modes of writing into a single sentence. She also has always been able to produce concise and vivid meditations on the largest issues of our time while seeming to describe the trivial details of daily life. On one level her new memoir, [...]

    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 [...]

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