• 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.




    • Susan Johnson

    Kudos for Susan Johnson’s
    Life in Seven Mistakes

    Saturday, January 17th, 2009

    Susan Johnson’s wonderful novel, Life in Seven Mistakes, has been named in the Australian Financial Review Magazine as one of the best books of 2008, and in the ‘Big Issue’ as the ’2008 standout’ book, with Jo Case saying: This sparkling satire captures a changing Australia through the prism of one dysfunctional family. It opens [...]

    Life in Seven Mistakes gets another great review

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Another great review for Susan Johnson’s Life in Seven Mistakes: Nicole Lindsay, in the lead review in the The Herald Sun calls it ‘a rare gem: a novel about modern family life that keeps the pages turning and makes you think at the same time’: Susan Johnson’s beautifully structured novel poses many almost unanswerable questions [...]

    Glowing reviews for Life in Seven Mistakes

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Susan Johnson is a guest at the 2008 Melbourne Writers’ Festival, where she has been speaking about her wonderful new novel, Life in Seven Mistakes, which is attracting glowing reviews. Here is the latest, from the Australian Financial Review, which has chosen the novel as its “Book of the Month” This is a novel that [...]

    Susan Johnson: Life in Seven Mistakes

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    The final cover for Susan Johnson’s new novel, Life in Seven Mistakes, which is to be published by Random House Australia in August.

    Susan Johnson: Life In Seven Mistakes

    Friday, December 21st, 2007

    The cover of Susan Johnson’s new novel, Life In Seven Mistakes, which will be published by Random House Australia in 2008. This fast-paced novel uncovers the story of each member of the Barton family, moving from the present to the past in alternating chapters, and moving from youth and hope to cantankerous old age by [...]

    Writers’ rooms: Susan Johnson

    Monday, November 26th, 2007

    This is my writing space. A desk that is not very useful but has sentimental value. Its made from timber from China and was a wedding present from my now dead grandfather. I have to pull out the drawer and rest a slab on it in order to avoid wrist strain from computer use. On [...]

    Essay: True North

    Thursday, September 27th, 2007

    BY SUSAN JOHNSON | I was born fifty years ago in the Australian north, in Brisbane, around the same time a young David Malouf was setting off for London. It sometimes seems to me that the idea of north has exerted its pull on me ever since I can remember. Although I was born in [...]

    Susan Johnson: Life In Seven Mistakes

    Monday, July 9th, 2007

    Over her acclaimed career as a novelist, Susan Johnson has alternated between two strands of the literary imagination — on one hand, in novels such as Messages From Chaos and Hungry Ghosts she has depicted the contemporary world, and the dilemmas faced by women and artists in the context of the present, while on the [...]