• 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.




    • Simon Capp

    Simon Capp: Italy? It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

    Italy. Land of pizza, pasta, piazzas and palazzos … Mild-mannered suburban father Simon Capp took his young family off to the Italian countryside for a change of lifestyle and to test our theory of the global internet worker. All he needs is electricity and a phone line. What could go wrong? This is the story [...]

    Simon Capp: A Very Italian Affair

    Thursday, December 20th, 2007

    Simon Capp is a Japanese translator who took his wife and two young children over to Italy on a 16-month working holiday in 2003. Their rollercoaster ride is recounted in hilarious detail in A Very Italian Affair, which has just been acquired by New Holland for publication in mid-2008. A Very Italian Affair tells the [...]