• 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.




    • Laurine Croasdale

    Laurine Croasdale: Surf Sisters

    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

    The cover for Surf Sisters by Laurine Croasdale which will be published by Pan Macmillan Australia in December. Winter swells are rolling into Diamond Beach. But surfer girls Fran, Pink, Marlee and Tilly are still consumed by all things surfing. Fran and Pink are collaborating on a surf label, and there’s news of a major [...]

    Laurine Croasdale: Surf School

    Thursday, August 9th, 2007

    Fifteen-year-old Tilly, Fran, Marlee and Pink are surfer girls. They have been meeting for the first surf of the season every year since they first met at the surf school run by Tilly’s dad, Phil, when they were eight. Phil has big plans for the surf school this year, but when he is injured in [...]