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.
The American editions of Henry’s Bath & Henry’s Bed get the full-page treatment in the Candlewick Press Spring-Summer 2008 catalogue. Both titles are published in Australia by Walker Books and are at booksellers now. Written by Margaret Perversi and illustrated by Ron Brooks, they are perfect titles for those who have young children who don’t [...]
