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.
Derek Hansen is the author of the bestselling Lunch series, and his new novel, Remember Me, is to be published by HarperCollins in Australia and New Zealand. It began innocently. It destroyed innocence forever. When a twelve year old boy writes an essay and inadvertently uncovers a wartime secret, he unleashes a chain of events [...]
