• 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.




    • Natalie Jane Prior

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    Natalie Jane Prior: The Minivers on the Run

    Monday, September 21st, 2009

    The cover for Natalie Jane Prior’s The Minivers on the Run, which is to be published by Marion Lloyd at Scholastic UK in February, 2010.

    Natalie Jane Prior: Minivers Fight Back

    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

    The cover for Natalie Jane Prior’s new novel, Minivers Fight Back, the second title in the Minivers series, to be published by Penguin Australia in August.  The Minivers are in danger. They’ve lost their home. They’ve lost their possessions. And they nearly lost their lives. Now they’re ready to fight back … Miniature celebrities Rosamund [...]

    Boxed deal for Natalie Jane Prior

    Thursday, November 27th, 2008

    UK rights to Natalie Jane Prior’s proposed four title series for 9-12 year old readers, The Minivers, have been bought by Marion Lloyd, for her imprint at Scholastic. Marion said “Natalie has written an absolute winner … the little classic I’d been hoping for. I love those two inspirational tiny divas — they are super [...]

    Italian success for Lily Quench series

    Thursday, September 4th, 2008

    The cover of the Italian edition of the final novel of Natalie Jane Prior’s Lily Quench series, Lily Quench & la Ricerca di re Drago. The series has been extremely successful in Italy, where it is published by Giunti, with all the previous six titles being bestsellers.            

    Good first review for The Minivers

    Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

    From The Australian Bookseller & Publisher: The Minivers: On the Run (Natalie Jane Prior, Puffin, $14.95 pb, ISBN 9780143303664, September) Rosamund, in her sequinned dress, acknowledges her fans as she arrives at a hotel for her 14th birthday party. What girl reader would not be entranced by this opening scene? Rosamund and Emily are Minivers, [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: Bologna, finally …

    Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

    Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press, Margaret Connolly and Natalie Jane Prior enjoying the atmosphere of the Piazza Maggiore, Bologna. Photograph by Gregory Rogers The name Bologna, if it means anything to most people, usually conjures up a vague image of continental sausage. To me, as a children’s writer, it was always more of a [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: Minivers On The Run

    Thursday, April 24th, 2008

    The cover for Natalie Jane Prior’s new novel for 9-12 year olds, Minivers On The Run, the first title in The Minivers series. It will be published by Penguin Australia in September.                  

    Lily Quench’s Companion

    Monday, July 9th, 2007

    The children’s magazines — Reading Time and Magpies — will soon be featuring this advertisement for the reissue by ABC Books of the Lily Quench series, titles 1-7, and the publication of a new title, Lily Quench’s Companion and the guide to Dragons and the Art of Quenching. They’re all written by Natalie Jane Prior [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: The Minivers

    Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

    Natalie Jane Prior is having a very exciting 2007, with Australian and New Zealand rights to her four-book modern fantasy series, The Minivers, having just been bought by Penguin Australia in a strongly contested auction. Glamorous sisters Rosamund and Emily Miniver are rich, famous, and on the run — and they’re only two feet tall. [...]

    Natalie Jane Prior: Minnie Pearl

    Thursday, May 17th, 2007

    Here is the cover of Minnie Pearl, a beautiful new picture book written by Natalie Jane Prior, and illustrated by Cheryl Orsini. Its to be published by ABC Books this September.          

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