• 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.




    • Kathleen Stewart

    Kathleen Stewart: Men of Bad Character

    Monday, March 15th, 2010

    From the acclaimed author of The After Life comes a compelling novel about modern love and dangerous liaisons. When Rose’s eighteen year relationship ends in the most shocking and unexpected way, she emerges from years of what she thought was love and realises the extent to which she was being emotionally manipulated and controlled. While [...]

    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 [...]

    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.                       

    Kathleen Stewart: The Afterlife

    Monday, May 7th, 2007

    Kathleen Stewart has published novels, short stories, and two collections of poems, and has been widely admired and praised for her writing, even earning a comparison with Patrick White. Yet nothing she has produced so far could have prepared readers for her memoir The Afterlife, which has just been accepted for publication by Random House [...]