• 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.




    • Michael Duffy

    ‘A Great Write Hope in the City of Sharks’

    Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

    The Tower by Michael Duffy (Allen & Unwin, $29.99). Reviewed by Winsor DobbinSydney Sun-Herald For a nation that is obsessed by crime stories and whose denizens avidly devour thrillers written by overseas authors – largely British and American – Australia has surprisingly few top-notch writers of the genre. Despite this being his debut novel, Michael [...]

    Michael Duffy: The Tower

    Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

    Michael Duffy’s first crime novel, The Tower, is to be published by Allen & Unwin in August. Young detective Nicholas Troy is basically a good man, for whom homicide investigation is the highest form of police work. But when a woman falls from the construction site for the world’s tallest skyscraper, the tortured course of [...]

    Michael Duffy: The Tower

    Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

    Michael Duffy’s first crime novel, The Tower, has been sold to Jane Palfreyman at Allen & Unwin, who describes it as ‘a promising and exciting addition to Australian crime writing.’ and plans to publish in August, 2009. For Nicholas Troy, Sydney had always been a city of sharks, a place where predators lurked beneath the [...]