• 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.




    • News

    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 [...]

    And the winner is … Romulus, My Father

    Friday, December 7th, 2007

    First-time director Richard Roxburgh’s film adaptation of Raimond Gaita’s critically-acclaimed memoir, Romulus, My Father, was crowned the best film of 2007 at the AFI awards dinner at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre last night. Eric Bana took out the best lead actor award and his co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee, 11, the young actor award. The film, which [...]

    Evil Genius is a Publishers Weekly Best of the Year pick

    Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

    The influential US Publisher’s Weekly has just named Evil Genius as one of the best books of the year in the Children’s Fiction category. They note: Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks (978-0-15-205988-0, $17): “A web of criminal machinations infiltrates every aspect of an impossibly brilliant boy’s life in this thoroughly entertaining and engrossing novel.” The [...]

    Alex Buzo: The Roy Murphy Show

    Monday, August 27th, 2007

    Announcing the launch of The Alex Buzo Company — featuring Buzo’s riotous satire on TV panel shows — The Roy Murphy Show. It’s on Tuesday September 4 2007 at the Parade Theatre, NIDA Director: Laurence Coy | Producer: Emma Buzo | featuring Andy Rodoreda as Roy Murphy | Very special guests: Roy Slaven and HG [...]

    The Rouseabout reprint ordered

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    Great news for Rachael Treasure’s third novel. Penguin have ordered a reprint of The Rouseabout — within only two days of publication. Rachael is currently on her author tour and is getting a wonderful response, and she was a big hit on ABC Radio’s Bush Telegraph.