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.
Stride’s Summer by Jenni Overend is a coming-of age-novel for readers aged 9-14 that perfectly captures a boy on the edge of adolescence, as he learns about grief and change. After his dad dies in a fishing accident, Stride turns to his dad’s pet bird, Ferd, for comfort, and he’s determined to make sure nothing [...]
