• 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.




    • Book extracts

    Glowing reviews for Life in Seven Mistakes

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Susan Johnson is a guest at the 2008 Melbourne Writers’ Festival, where she has been speaking about her wonderful new novel, Life in Seven Mistakes, which is attracting glowing reviews. Here is the latest, from the Australian Financial Review, which has chosen the novel as its “Book of the Month” This is a novel that [...]

    Rave reviews roll in for The After Life

    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

    Kathleen Stewart’s wonderful memoir — The After Life — is continuing to attract rave reviews, and here are some excerpts: ‘…disturbing and compulsively readable. …This is an extraordinarily powerful book. …It will tear at your heart.’ Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald ‘The After Life is dark and troubled but so well done it is hard [...]