• 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.




    • Christopher Koch

    Christopher Koch: The Many-Coloured Land in print again

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Christopher Koch’s acclaimed memoir of Ireland, The Many-Coloured Land, is to be re-issued by Random House Australia in November, 2008. When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much [...]

    Vintage Classics: The Year Of Living Dangerously

    Monday, August 11th, 2008

    The cover for the new Vintage Classics edition of Christopher Koch’s The Year Of Living Dangerously, which was first published in 1978 and has been in print ever since. Jakarta: 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is the Year of Living Dangerously. The charismatic god-king Sukarno has [...]

    Literary honour for Tasmania

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    Two Tasmanian authors have been nominated for the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Dolphin Sands writer Nicholas Shakespeare and Christopher Koch of Richmond have been placed on the long list of nine novels. The $42,000 award is given to the writer of a ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. [...]

    Christopher Koch’s Chinese journey

    Sunday, January 20th, 2008

    Christopher Koch is to be a guest at the Australian Writers Week in China in March 2008, the broad theme of which is “Australians Writing about the World”. Events will take place in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, and will include a combination of lectures, readings and seminars at major universities, bookshop visits and an opening [...]

    The Memory Room attracting excellent reviews

    Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

    Christopher Koch’s wonderful new novel, The Memory Room, published earlier this month, has already reprinted twice, and is attracting excellent reviews. Here are some excerpts: ‘Koch is both painter and poet — an acute observer of detail with a lanaguage so distilled in its purity as to create the illusionthat the reader is also the [...]

    Christopher Koch: The Memory Room

    Thursday, September 13th, 2007

    The stark, striking cover of Christopher Koch’s seventh novel, The Memory Room, which is to be published by Random House Australia and Jonathan Cape UK in November, 2007. ‘What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?’ With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but [...]

    Christopher Koch: The Memory Room

    Sunday, May 27th, 2007

    Two-times Miles Franklin Award-winner Christopher Koch has just finished his eagerly-awaited seventh novel, which will be published later this year by Random House in Australia, and Jonathan Cape in the UK, with a six-figure advance. The Memory Room might seem at a first reading to resemble the espionage-based thrillers of writers such as John le [...]