Jonno has written three books in the time it has taken him to have two children. He hopes to continue to widen this lead.

Arrivederci

Forthcoming from Scribner (2027)

Following the death of her husband, 94 year-old matriarch Iris Scholl makes a radical decision. Blessed with both sound body and mind, she is avowedly against the idea of shuffling off quietly, especially stuck in a nursing home. Instead she announces to her family that she will be seeing out her days on the isle of Capri, where she spent some of the happiest times of her life.

Iris has never booked a flight, used an iPhone or even sent an email. She hasn’t spoken Italian fluently since the Whitlam years. But she is wily, hilarious and headstrong. Flanked by her favourite grandson and the inconvenient ghost of her husband, Iris is about to embark on her last great odyssey. In our longevity-obsessed era, Arrivederci is brave enough to ask how we truly want to grow old.

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All The Beautiful Things You Love

Published by Pan Macmillian (2024)

When Enzo suddenly walks out on Elly after ten years together, she finds herself marooned in an expensive East London flat, surrounded by all their belongings. Now she's listing it all on Marketplace: the table they found in Italy. The bike he bought for her birthday. Records, luggage, a vintage velvet couch. Anything that tells a story she'd rather forget. Elly thinks that selling these items to total strangers will help her move on from Enzo and heal her devastated heart. But she's about to get a lot more than she bargained for.

‍All the Beautiful Things You Love is a vivid and vibrant exploration of the things that bring us together and tear us apart, and those keepsakes that populate the wide-open spaces between where love ends and starts again.

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It's A Shame About Ray

Published by Allen & Unwin (2022)

Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this memoir traverses family, death, masculinity, hope, love, compassion and the deep relationship we can develop with music throughout our lives when nothing else is enough. It's a Shame About Ray asks how we shape new identities from old tragedies - and whether the answers might be hiding in the bestselling record of 2001.

The book was transformed into an immersive life performance for Sydney Writers Festival 2023, as well as being the subject of features in Good Weekend, The Guardian and Vogue. It also received its own episode of ABC's Conversations.

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