• 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.




    • Marshall Browne

    Rave reviews for Marshall Browne’s The Iron Heart

    Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

    Marshall Browne’s novel The Eye of the Abyss, which introduced the German bank auditor Franz Schmidt, received glowing praise in Australia and the USA. Its sequel, The Iron Heart, is just out and is already receiving rave reviews. In the Adelaide Independent Weekly, Stephen Davenport wrote: “… atmospheric, menacing and wonderfully-observed historical thriller set in [...]

    Marshall Browne: Evolution of a character

    Monday, September 15th, 2008

    Marshall Browne’s first Franz Schmidt novel, The Eye of the Abyss, is to be re-issued by Random House Australia in January, with the sequel, The Iron Heart, to be published in March. Here he writes about the creation of Auditor Franz Schmidt: Several years ago an image of three figures walking in a foggy street [...]

    Marshall Browne: The Iron Heart

    Thursday, September 4th, 2008

    Franz Schmidt’s auspicious debut in The Eye of the Abyss brought a new front-running contender to the international espionage thriller genre, and achieved the rare feat of Starred reviews from each of Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews: ‘… dark and convincing Kafkaesque landscape’ — Publishers Weekly.; ‘… superlatively chilling’ – Booklist; ‘Brilliant storytelling’ — [...]

    Marshall Browne: The Eye of the Abyss

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    The new cover for Marshall Browne’s great mystery novel, The Eye of the Abyss, which Random House Australia are reissuing in January, 2009. The sequel, The Iron Heart, will be published in March. From the cover notes: As chilling a thriller as you’ll read this year, set in Hitler’s jack-booted Germany, 1938. Utterly convincing evocation [...]

    Marshall Browne: Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn

    Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

    Another thriller from the pen of Marshall Browne: Tokyo Detective Aoki is devastated when influence and power undermine a major investigation. Unwilling to let go, he is sent to a remote Japanese retreat in the mountains for a vacation. His stay quickly becomes a hotbed of suspense as Aoki realises that all the guests are [...]

    Marshall Browne: Inspector Anders and the Blood Vendetta

    Monday, March 26th, 2007

    The gripping third instalment of Marshall Browne’s Inspector Anders series brings back Australia’s favourite one-legged police inspector: It’s autumn in the E.U. and the temperature is falling in more ways than one when Inspector Anders is ordered back to Italy. Two right-wing politicians have been murdered with an identical, bizarre M.O. The Government is screaming [...]

    Marshall Browne

    Sunday, March 25th, 2007

    Marshall Browne is the author of twelve published books of fiction. For thirty-seven years, Browne was a banker — in Australia, Hong Kong, England and Bhutan. He also served as a commando in the Australian forces, and as a paratrooper in the British forces. Several of his books have been published in the US. The [...]