Connor Court Publishing

The name "Connor Court" comes from a concatenation of the American writer Flannery O'Connor and 17th century Dutch economist Pieter de la Court. Connor Court was founded in Ballan, Victoria, before moving to Ballarat and then, in 2016, to Queensland. Before starting Connor Court, Cappello worked at Freedom Publishing imprint of the late B. A. Santamaria's National Civic Council (NCC).

Connor Court publishes a diverse range of books but has a focus on conservative and religious subjects. Connor Court has published many authors, contributing authors and editors from the Institute of Public Affairs, such as Andrew McIntyre, Chris Berg, John Roskam, Cory Bernardii, Tim Wilson, Gary Johns, Mikayla Novak, James Grant, Alan Moran, Bob Day, Simon Breheny and Tom Switzer. John Roskam, executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs, sits on the editorial board of Connor Court. Connor Court has also published books in conjunction with the Institute of Public Affairs, such as Australian Essays by Roger Scruton.

Authors published include Cardinal George Pell, John Killick, Peter Coleman and James Franklin. Its books have been launched by prominent public figures such as Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, Dean Brown, Jack Snelling, Steve Bracks, John Howard and Warren Mundine.

Recent authors include Ken Phillips, Barry Cohen, Ian Plimer, Peta Seaton, Jeff Bennett, Barry Dickins, Kerry Cue and Rabbi Shimon Cowen. Titles for 2009 included books on bioethics, global warming, ecology and utilitarianism. In 2011 it began publishing titles on Australian Rules Football.

One of its titles, The Light River, by Hal Colebatch, won the Poetry Category in the 2007 Premier's Award of Western Australia. In 2009, it published Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer. According to the publisher, the book sold over 40,000 copies and reached number one on the Nielsen BookScan Australia on 2 May 2009.

In 2012, Connor Court authors ranged from Gary Johns to Barry Dickins.

In 2015, Connor Court published a biography of the former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, and launched the book at Tattersall's Club, Brisbane. The book caused controversy, with a number of publishers turning it down and a number of bookstores not stocking it, as a protest against Newman's withdrawal of funding for the Premier's Literary Awards while in government.