• 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.




    • Laura Buzo

    Laura Buzo: Good Oil

    Sunday, May 16th, 2010

    ‘I feel about this manuscript the way I felt about the first draft of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi. Here is a fresh, beautiful, young contemporary voice, a new writer with wonderful potential and a novel you can fall in love with. It is told in two voices — 15-year-old Amelia and 21-year-old Chris and [...]

    Laura Buzo: Good Oil

    Monday, February 9th, 2009

    Alex Buzo would have been very proud of his talented daughter, Laura, who at the age of 30 has just signed a contract with Allen & Unwin for two young adult novels, Good Oil, and a second, unwritten novel. In her letter of offer, the A&U Children’s Publisher, Erica Wagner, wrote: I feel about this [...]