• 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.




    • Gregory Rogers

    Gregory Rogers: The Hero of Little Street

    Saturday, July 10th, 2010

    Congratulations to Gregory Rogers, whose beautiful picture book, The Hero of Little Street, has received short listings for the 2010 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Picture Book of the Year Award, the NSW Premier’s Prize, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature, Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2010, and the 2009 Aurealis Award for [...]

    Gregory Rogers: The Hero of Little Street

    Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

    Gregory Rogers holds an advance copy of The Hero of Little Street, which Allen & Unwin will publish later this year. Escaping from a gang of bullies, our Boy slips into a grand old gallery – the perfect hiding place, full of mystery and treasures. Enchanted by the magic of painting and befriended by a [...]

    Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Four stars for Flitterwig

    Saturday, July 19th, 2008

    From Good Reading, July 2008. Are your feet too big, your ears slightly pointy on the top and do you have a weakness for sugar? Perhaps you’re a Flitterwig: someone who is part human, part magical. The day Ella meets an emotionally unstable yet passionately loyal pixie, and discovers that she is part-Elf, her life [...]

    The Hero Of Little Street — A Work in Progress

    Thursday, June 19th, 2008

    Some illustrations from Gregory Rogers’ new picture book, The Hero of Little Street, which is a sequel to The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard, and Midsummer Knight. The series is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, in the USA by Roaring Brook Press, in France by Dargaud, in Germany by Mauritz Verlag, [...]

    Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Flitterwig

    Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

    The understated cover for Edrei Cullen’s novel for young readers, Flitterwig, which is illustrated by Gregory Rogers. What if wandering around in your neighbourhood, are people with a bit of pixie in them, or a bit of elf, or a bit of goblin? Ella always thought she was odd, but when a mysterious purple package [...]

    Writers’ rooms: Gregory Rogers

    Friday, December 21st, 2007

    This is one corner of my studio which is on the first floor of an old building in the main street of Woolloongabba in Brisbane. It’s a large space and I am totally self contained without needing to share facilities with anyone. If I want solitude, I have it. My building is sandwiched between a [...]

    Gregory Rogers at the Bologna Fiera

    Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

    Going to Bologna for the Children’s Book Fair is like making the pilgrimage to Mecca. It’s a journey that every illustrator feels they have to make, at least once in their lifetime. Some get there. And this year I was one of the fortunates. So with a bundle of Euros, appointments scheduled, storylines to show, [...]