• 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.




    • Leigh Hobbs

    Leigh Hobbs reports

    Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

    Fearing for her life, Horrible Harriet flees the recent CBC Conference in the Allen & Unwin Limo.

    Leigh Hobbs: A Friend for Old Tom

    Monday, March 10th, 2008

    A Friend for Old Tom, the latest title from Leigh Hobbs will be in bookstores next month. It tells the story of how Old Tom met Angela Throgmorton. Angela Throgmorton lives alone and likes it that way. Then one day a baby monster turns up on her doorstep and Angela’s life is never the same [...]

    Old Tom’s poster launched

    Saturday, August 18th, 2007

    The poster for Leigh Hobbs’s Old Tom’s Big Book of Beauty, which Allen & Unwin will publish in October.                       

    Leigh Hobbs: Old Tom’s Big Book of Beauty

    Monday, April 2nd, 2007

    Hot off the press — here is the cover of Leigh Hobbs’s new book, Old Tom’s Big Book of Beauty, to be published by Allen & Unwin later this year. You can find out more about this excellent illustrator at his profusely-illustrated web site. Leigh’s work includes the Old Tom series (Hyperion USA): Old Tom’s [...]