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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the next two official books by the Pontiff, entitled Buona Vita (Have A Great Life) and Ti Voglio Felice (I Want You To Be Happy).
Andy Lyon, publishing director at Hodder Faith, bought World English rights from Luigi Bonomi at LBA Books, in association with JR Literary Agency, on behalf of the Italian publisher Libreria Pienogiorno in collaboration with Libreria Editrice Vaticana, in a joint deal with publishers Daisy Hutton and Beth Adams at Worthy Publishing, Hodder Faith’s sister US imprint in Hachette Book Group.
Hodder & Stoughton plans to publish Buona Vita in Autumn 2023, with Ti Voglio Felice following in Autumn 2024.
In Buona Vita, Pope Francis outlines 15 rules for a good life. The publisher says: “We can always make a fresh start, whatever difficulties we’ve had in the past. In Ti Voglio Felice, Pope Francis’ starting point is that the desire for happiness was planted into the soul of every human being. Both books contain popular, accessible theology from the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics.”
Lyon commented: “It is a huge honour to be trusted with publishing Pope Francis’ books in the English language across the world. His Petrine ministry has been admired by many as a tremendous gift as he has called us all over the past decade to think more intently about the shape of the Church in the future. These books represent Pope Francis at his pastoral best, throwing his arms wide open to include an audience even beyond the Church, encouraging us to attend to our inner lives and respond to the spiritual instinct in the soul of each one of us.”