• 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.




    • Kate Jennings

    Kate Jennings: Trouble: Selected Writings 1970-2010

    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

    The cover for Kate Jennings’s new book, Trouble: Selected Writings 1970-2010, which is to be published by Black Inc. in 2010. In 1970 Kate Jennings, 21, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put “women’s lib” on the map. Brave, impassioned and searingly sarcastic, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic [...]

    Kate Jennings: American Revolution

    Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

    Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: “the run-up to the election … a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable [...]

    Kate Jennings: To Hell with the Future

    Friday, October 3rd, 2008

    Kate Jennings’s prophetic essay To Hell with the Future was published in the Australian Financial Review back in April, and is to be included in Black Inc’s Best Australian Essays 2008 By Kate Jennings | illustrations by Rohan Cain | Because I wrote a novel, Moral Hazard, and opinion pieces for The New York Times [...]

    Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie

    Thursday, January 10th, 2008

    A wise, wry gorgeous book about two border terriers—by the keenly intelligent, winning writer who lost her heart to them. “I fell in love with a prideful, tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high. You would see a small brown dog; I saw perfection.” So begins the story of Kate Jennings’s [...]

    Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    The cover for the Australian edition of Kate Jennings’s beautiful memoir, Stanley and Sophie, which will be published by Random House in May, 2008.                  

    Kate Jennings: Stanley and Sophie

    Sunday, May 13th, 2007

    Prize-winning novelist, poet and essayist Kate Jennings often combines all three of these modes of writing into a single sentence. She also has always been able to produce concise and vivid meditations on the largest issues of our time while seeming to describe the trivial details of daily life. On one level her new memoir, [...]