• 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.




    • Art work

    Design Awards shortlist for MC&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    The shortlists for the 57th Annual Australian Book Publishers Design Awards for 2009 have just been announced, and congratulations to the designers and publishers of the books from my list which have been shortlisted. Flitterwig by Edrei Cullen, cover designer Madeline Smith, internal designer Simone Kelleher, publisher Scholastic Australia. Shortlisted for The Best Designed Children’s [...]

    Stephen Michael King: The ABC Book of Lullabies

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Stephen Michael King’s illustration of Golden Slumbers, for The ABC Book of Lullabies, to be published October, 2008.

    The Hero Of Little Street — A Work in Progress

    Thursday, June 19th, 2008

    Some illustrations from Gregory Rogers’ new picture book, The Hero of Little Street, which is a sequel to The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard, and Midsummer Knight. The series is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, in the USA by Roaring Brook Press, in France by Dargaud, in Germany by Mauritz Verlag, [...]