Ariella Feiner

I started working at PFD in 2006 before moving to United Agents, and I now represent many bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning authors across fiction and non-fiction, including Sunday Times bestsellers, Richard and Judy book club picks and New York Times bestselling authors. In 2017, The Bookseller named me as a Rising Star.

My clients include Jane Casey, whose Sunday Times bestselling novel The Killing Kind was a Richard and Judy pick and adapted into a TV series starring Colin Morgan, multi-million copy selling Mike Gayle, whose novels Half a World Away and A Song of Me and You were Richard and Judy picks, Claire Daverley, whose love story Talking at Night was shortlisted for the Debut Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2024 British Book Awards, S J Watson, the author of Before I Go To Sleep; Nikki May, the author of the Read with Jenna pick This Motherless Land,  Louisa Young who is writing the official continuation novels in The Cazalet Chronicles, and Natasha Preston, who has had nine New York Times bestsellers to date. In non-fiction, authors I represent include Olia Hercules, who received the 2023 Guild of Food Writer's Special Award for her work in co-founding #CookforUkraine and The Great British Sewing Bee hosts Patrick Grant and Esme Young, both instant Sunday Times bestsellers.

I am always open to submissions and have found many hugely exciting authors that way. I adore the rush of being the first to discover new voices and the strategy of working with authors to shape their careers in the long-term.

For submissions please email a synopsis together with either the first three chapters of a novel or a proposal for a non-fiction book to afeiner@unitedagents.co.uk. During the submission process, please do keep me in the loop and let me know if another agent has requested your complete manuscript or offered you representation.

Recent fiction I’ve enjoyed:

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• Wrong Place Wrong Time
• The Vanishing Half
• Notes on an Execution
• Happy Place
• Girl A
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Weyward

Recent non-fiction I’ve enjoyed:

• English Pastoral
• Entangled Life
• Ultra-Processed People
• Educated
• Sociopath: A Memoir
• Wilding
• The Salt Path 

What I’m looking for in fiction:

• A love story
• An exciting or unusual hook
• Unexpected voices
• Speculative or magical elements such as in The Husbands
• Multi-generational novels
• Book club titles exploring big issues or secrets
• Memorable characters and concepts
• Twisty thrillers and crime novels 
• An epic tale such as Great Circle or the love story elements in Shogun
• Historical fiction reflecting the world we live in now, such as Hidden Figures, or with an intriguing concept such as The Lamplighters or The Familiars
• Retellings of cherished stories, such as Wicked and Joan
• Access to a hidden part of the world, such as in The 19^th Wife

What I’m looking for in non-fiction:

• Expert-led ideas such as Ultra-Processed People or Entangled Life
• Narrative memoir
• Nature writing
• Mouth-watering cook books
• Books with ground-breaking or unusual historical insights