• 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.




    • James Moloney

    James Moloney: The Book from Baden Dark

    Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

    One of Australia’s most respected and awarded children’s authors is back with the exciting conclusion to the bestselling trilogy that began with The Book of Lies. It is James Moloney’s The Book from Baden Dark. The combined sales for the first two books of the phenomenal trilogy total over 60,000 copies – find out why! [...]

    James Moloney: The Book From Baden Dark

    Friday, March 20th, 2009

    The cover of The Book From Baden Dark, the final novel in James Moloney’s bestselling Book Trilogy, which will be published by HarperCollins Australia in June.                

    Design Awards shortlist for MC&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    The shortlists for the 57th Annual Australian Book Publishers Design Awards for 2009 have just been announced, and congratulations to the designers and publishers of the books from my list which have been shortlisted. Flitterwig by Edrei Cullen, cover designer Madeline Smith, internal designer Simone Kelleher, publisher Scholastic Australia. Shortlisted for The Best Designed Children’s [...]

    James Moloney: Kill the Possum

    Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

    James Moloney’s exciting new Young Adult novel, Kill the Possum, is to be published in April, 2008 by Penguin Australia. Dylan saw Cartwright do it with his own eyes when he blundered into Kirsty’s house on that first Sunday. On the second Sunday he saw only the carnage the man had left behind, but that [...]

    James Moloney: Master of the Books

    Monday, July 9th, 2007

    James Moloney’s Master of the Books — the sequel to the bestselling The Book of Lies has made it to the booksellers. In June 2004, a nation of readers experienced James Moloney’s first foray into the world of fantasy fiction. A well-respected, award-winning author already, James viewed this as an experiment; a testing of the [...]

    James Moloney

    Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

    James Moloney is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded children’s book authors. His novel Dougy was named an Honour Book in the Older Reader category of the CBC awards in 1994; Gracey was named an Honour Book in the Older Reader category of the CBC awards in 1995; and The House on River Terrace [...]