• 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.




    • Claire Carmichael

    Claire Carmichael: Gotta B

    Monday, August 3rd, 2009

    No SMS, no email, no Facebook: in the digital age, who are you when you’re disconnected from your friends? Claire Carmichael is one of Australia’s leading authors for young adults. Her novel Ads R Us was a CBCA Notable Book and featured in Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great Reads for Teenagers by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen [...]

    Claire Carmichael: Nautilus Silver winner

    Thursday, May 1st, 2008

    Congratulations to Claire Carmichael, whose young adult novel Leaving Simplicity, published in North America by Annick Press, and in Australia by Random House with the title Ads-R-Us, is a Silver winner in this year’s USA Nautilus Book Awards, in the Fiction/Fantasy, Children’s/Young Adult category. The Gold winners will be announced at BookExpoAmerica in May/June.

    Claire Carmichael: Leaving Simplicity

    Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

    Claire Carmichael’s last young adult novel, published in Australia as Ads-R-Us, has just been released in North America by the prestigious Annick Press, retitled Leaving Simplicity. Claire is working on a new novel, Gotta B, which has recently been sold to Random House Australia.