Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, will publish HOPE, in the US. Italian publisher Mondadori announced the forthcoming publication of HOPE, the autobiography of Pope Francis, which will be published simultaneously worldwide next January, and for which the Italian publisher is managing world rights. Molly Turpin at Random House acquired world English rights (joined by Penguin Random House Canada and Viking UK).
They say the pontiff has been working on the book for six years, written with publisher Carlo Musso. The release says, “In accordance with the wishes of Pope Francis, this unprecedented memoir was originally intended to be published after the Pope’s passing. The announcement of the new Jubilee of Hope in 2025 inspired him to make this legacy available now.” The book will feature photographs, “including private and unpublished material made personally available by the Pope.”
Announced publishers include: Albin Michel (France); Kosel (Germany); Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (Spain); Penguin Random House Portugal (Portugal); Companhia das letras (Brazil); Znanje (Croatia); Ikar (Slovakia); Kossuth Kiado (Hungary); Polirom (Romania); Gutenberg Dardanos (Greece); Catholic Publishing House (Korea); Rosa del vents (Catalan); Swiat Ksiazki (Poland); and Lithuanian Writers Union (Lithuania).
Rights: francesca.gariazzo@mondadori.it
cristiana.patriarca@mondadori.it
Earlier this year, HarperCollins published the Pope’s LIFE: My Story Through History.
Entertainment executive Barry Diller‘s memoir WHO KNEW was formally announced for publication on May 20, 2025. And the book will be published by Simon & Schuster. You may recall that in July, metadata for the same title was released by Knopf, which then scrubbed their listing for a generic untitled arts and entertainment memoir. (Even that page at the PRH website but has been removed now, though multiple bookselling sites are still listing the Knopf ISBN 9780593317877.) The publisher calls the book, an “entertaining business memoir and a surprisingly frank coming-of-age story.” S&S acquired world rights, sold by Robert Barnett of Williams & Connolly.
“I’ve had a history with telling stories and I thought mine was a good yarn,” said Diller in a release. “If I could write it myself and tell it truthfully – I welcome it being out there for others to judge, and hopefully enjoy.”
Elsewhere, Scholastic revealed the cover for the next novel in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. The book, which is a prequel set 24 years before the original Hunger Games, will be published simultaneously in print, digital and audio by Scholastic in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, on March 18, 2025. They announced a world English first printing of 2.5 million copies. A film version of the new book is already planned for release on November 20, 2026 from Lionsgate.
In other reveals, People magazine shared the jacket for Emily Henry’s GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE, publishing April 22, 2025.