• 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.




    • Rachael Treasure

    Rachael Treasure: The Cattleman’s Daughter

    Sunday, August 30th, 2009

    Introducing Rachael Treasure’s new book, The Cattleman’s Daughter. Look out for it in Australian bookstores from September 28.     From one of Australia’s best-loved authors comes a dramatic novel that captures the essence of our times. Land management, environmental care and consumerism are current issues that have been woven into Treasure’s dramatic and entertaining [...]

    Rachael Treasure: The Cattleman’s Daughter

    Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

    ANZ rights in Rachael Treasure’s exciting new novel, The Cattleman’s Daughter have just been acquired by Ali Watts for Penguin Australia. The planned date for publication is October, 2009. Ali describes the novel as ‘breathtaking’, and said: ‘This is a richly rewarding read that examines the lives of strong, contemporary women, but has the timeless [...]

    Rachael Treasure: The Dare

    Thursday, December 4th, 2008

    The UK cover for Rachael Treasure’s The Dare (Australian title is The Rouseabout), which is to be published next April by Preface. From the cover notes: Discover one of Australia’s best-loved writers ‘Kate felt her skin prickle. The glow of the night suddenly faded. She felt the coldness of her mother’s death creeping up on [...]

    Rachael Treasure: River Run Deep

    Friday, July 11th, 2008

    Rachael Treasure’s first novel, Jillaroo, is to be published in the UK later this year by the Preface Imprint of Random House, with the new title of River Run Deep. Here is the cover.                  

    UK contract for Rachael Treasure

    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

    Congratulations to Rachael Treasure, who has recently signed a four book deal with Random House UK for her three backlist titles, and the new novel which she is presently writing. Her UK publisher will be Rosie de Courcy, who has been described as “an iconic publisher, one of the great editors of the last 25 [...]

    Rachael Treasure goes electronic

    Monday, February 25th, 2008

    Best-selling Tasmanian author Rachael Treasure has released her first eBook, Treasure’s Tales — a collection of new short stories in her own humorous, earthy style, published by Summerhill Publishing. The collection shows how her writing has developed from the beginning as a 17-year-old university student until now as a still-young farmer and mother of two. [...]

    Writers’ rooms: Rachael Treasure

    Monday, November 19th, 2007

    Ever wondered where I write? Here’s where I spend hours, sweating, stressing and bleeding over my novels … and now that I have my new Mac thanks to my ‘Wonderful Webmaster’, I also have fun in here! It’s a tiny room and I share it with the farm bookwork and John’s teaching office work so [...]

    Rachael Treasure’s German book deal

    Thursday, June 14th, 2007

    As Rachael Treasure announced it on her web site: News is in from our German literary sub-agent that Random House in Germany want to do a deal to buy all my novels! Already they have translated The Stockman. Now it’s Jillaroo and The Rouseabout’s turn. Our sub-agent Sebastian said the deal happened over a bottle [...]

    The Rouseabout reprint ordered

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    Great news for Rachael Treasure’s third novel. Penguin have ordered a reprint of The Rouseabout — within only two days of publication. Rachael is currently on her author tour and is getting a wonderful response, and she was a big hit on ABC Radio’s Bush Telegraph.

    Rachael Treasure: The Rouseabout

    Thursday, March 15th, 2007

    Rachael Treasure’s latest novel — The Rouseabout, published by Penguin — hits bookstores on April 1. It follows her earlier bestsellers — Jillaroo and The Stockman: Kate Webster, a loveable larrikin, likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later. At 19, unhinged by the death of her mother, she takes on a [...]