• 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.




    • Kathy Webb

    Collaboration is the name of the game

    Saturday, November 8th, 2008

    Collaboration is the name of the game for these sisters whose sharing of experiences provides the groundwork for their literary creations says Jane Scott of the Brisbane News. Kris: My sense is that Kathy and I have always been really good friends, but I am sure there are times when we weren’t. My parents maintain [...]

    New Australian novel helping to ease financial pain

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    Other People’s Diaries by Kathy Webb has been striking a chord with readers across the country by testing whether it is possible to find happiness — not with a bigger house or a new car, but by enjoying the small pleasures we encounter in everyday life. The author’s website has been inundated with emails from [...]

    Kathy Webb: Other People’s Diaries

    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

    The final cover for Kathy Webb’s Other People’s Diaries, the new novel from the author of Inheriting Jack. ‘It sounds strange, but do you know anyone who is really happy? Someone who is exactly where they want to be, who gets up every morning looking forward to what the day will bring? I have a [...]

    ‘Kathy Webb’: Other People’s Diaries

    Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

    Alice is an author who has never lived up to the promise of her phenomenally successful first book. Drowning in the quagmire of domestic life, she conceives an idea for an unusual social experiment and a new book. Under the pretext of a competition, Alice brings together a disparate group of people. Her plan is [...]