• 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.




    • Phillip Gwynne

    2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Shortlists

    Thursday, August 5th, 2010

    Congratulations to my authors whose work has been shortlisted in this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards. Harry & Hopper, by Margaret Wild (with Freya Blackwood) has been shortlisted in the Children’s fiction category, and The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke, and Swerve, by Phillip Gwynne, have both been shortlisted in the Young adult category.

    Phillip Gwynne: Swerve

    Monday, August 3rd, 2009

    Phillip Gwynne’s exciting new young adult novel Swerve, is to be published by Penguin Australia in September. The Monaro was a spaceship hurtling through the inter-galactic, a sub-marine slicing through Atlantic depths. Inside, the milky light from the dashboard; outside, headlights punching holes in the outback night” 16-year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. [...]

    Phillip Gwynne: Swerve

    Monday, February 16th, 2009

    Phillip Gwynne has recently delivered the manuscript of his new young adult novel, Swerve, which is to be published by Penguin Australia in September, 2009. With only days to go before his audition for entry to the Conservatorium, sixteen-year-old musical prodigy and part-time nerd Hugh Twycross is convinced by Poppy, his newly-discovered grandfather, to go [...]

    Pan Macmillan commissions
    series from Phillip Gwynne

    Friday, October 24th, 2008

    Pan Macmillan Australia are so happy with Phillip Gwynne’s first crime novel, The Build Up, that they’ve commissioned him to write two more novels in the series. He has already started work on book two, Capital of the Second Chance. And German rights to The Build Up have just been bought by the effervescent Maria [...]

    Phillip Gwynne: 4.5 stars for The Build Up

    Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

    From Bookseller + Publisher. July 2008 This debut adult crime novel from the author of Deadly Unna? is set in Darwin. This is, I believe, a first. The main character is Detective Dusty Buchanon, a female cop in the very male world of the Northern Territory police force. Dusty gets taken off a case she [...]