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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Friends! Arnold Prinsloo is back, and it’s all about to kick off in the small Karoo town of Victoria… I’ll let you know about launch dates shortly, but I wanted to share the cover so long — another absolute ripper by Mike Cruywagen.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'28 February to 15 June: A Visual History Of The United States At War With Iran'

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I do hope that US Secret Service members are going to be allowed to join the Screen Actors Guild soon so they can get proper representation. Some of them are putting in seriously good performances but probably getting zero screen credits or residuals.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

For some unknown but happy reason 'An Act of Murder' is now available on Kindle at a far lower (and might I say sensible) price than before. If you haven't yet met the hapless Arnold Prinsloo (*not* Arnold Vosloo) I'd be delighted to take you along for the ride. www.amazon.com/Act-Murder-T...

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An Act of Murder

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

As I put Another Day In Paradise to bed for 2025, here's a brief look back and a timid look forward. Thanks for coming along with me this year. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/half-a-yea...

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Half a year in paradise

So long, 2025

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

'We're going to need a bigger boat.' 'Why do you say that?' 'The shark just popped up while I was chumming and it’s massive.' As Hollywood starts producing TV and movies for people who aren't paying attention, I pitch for work... anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/pulp-frict...

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Pulp Friction

The future of screenwriting in a 'second screen' world

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Trump has doubled down on his lie that white South Africans are being oppressed, claiming that that he's missing the G20 because "policies on the extermination of people are unacceptable." Posting this again to refute this dangerous lie. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

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The imaginary persecution of Afrikaners in South Africa: a brief explainer

If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, or that there’s a radical Marxist called ...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, here’s a brief explainer about what's really going on. (TLDR: It's a hustle.) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

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The imaginary persecution of Afrikaners in South Africa: a brief explainer

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

‪Gutted. Heartbroken. Shattered. Why has admiration for books started sounding like a rough night in the emergency room? My latest, free to read at anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/broken-sha...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The white right and its sturmpodcasters claim that white people are disappearing because of a Great Replacement and 'white genocide'. For them, the truth behind the numbers is far too horrific to contemplate. My latest, free to read. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

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The Curious Case of the Disappearing White People

And how the white right can’t face the monster in the basement

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

'I said to Mr Kennedy that it seemed like the worm had finally started turning, and he said no, it was still dead for now but he was gonna keep staying away from 5G towers just in case because you never know.' anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-power-...

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The Power Diaries: September 2025

Another glimpse into the private thoughts of the people who shape our world...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the latest Q&A: benevolent dictators, and and the looming prospect of AI-generated Charlie Kirks spending all day dropping zingers on AI-generated liberal strawmen. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma...

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Q&A: May I bot in?

Your latest questions

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We keep hearing that democracy is under attack, but what if a lot of people in democracies want what the autocrats and oligarchs are selling because they simply want to be ruled by a new aristocracy? Free to read. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/but-what-i...

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But what if we want a king?

On a winter afternoon in 1863, in two very famous minutes, Abraham Lincoln expressed the hope that government of the people, by the people, for the people, would endure.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

'Until this week, I think my favourite piece in the White House was "Shut Your Mouth, Witch, Lest My Penis Falls Off", but today I find myself utterly transfixed by the newest arrival...' anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-power-...

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The Power Diaries, August 2025

Mary-Beth Lebensraum, assistant curator, The White House

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

In the inaugural Q&A at Another Day In Paradise this week, questions about Gaza, the state of the world, how to help, Focke-Wulfs, and my dog. If you'd like to ask a question for the next Q&A, see the details at the end (and subscribe!). anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/q-and-a-is...

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Q&A: Is it all about to go boom?

Welcome to my first Q&A, where I’ll be trying to answer some very serious and some not so serious questions contributed by subscribers.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The Backstreet Boys warned us, them and Boyzone. They sang their little hearts out like a choir of corporately choreographed Cassandras, telling us what was coming, and we didn’t listen... anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-backst...

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The Backstreet Boys knew what was coming

What pop can teach us about the world

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Finally got Karoline to Burn that South Park episode onto a CD so I could Watch it and I am DISGUSTED & OFFENDED & SHOCKED that they would show Satan not wanting to have sex with me." Some extracts from the journals of the powerful... anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-power-...

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The Power Diaries, July 2025

Selected extracts from the personal journals of world leaders

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

For years the global north has told itself that corruption looks like a dark-skinned man in a sunny, faraway country. Thanks to that racist trope, it can't see that white men in expensive suits are bringing the banana republics home. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-banana...

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The banana republics of Africa, Europe and North America

On Sunday, as I read that ANC Youth League apparatchiks are allegedly being encouraged to apply for seats on the boards of state-run hospitals where they will be paid up to R10,000 ($560) per meeting ...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I hope the new #Superman movie makes a pile but I'm afraid my relationship with the Man of Steel was ended almost 40 years ago by a superhero insect and his sidekick, an inanimate doll called Cheeks The Toy Wonder. (Free to read) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/superman-s...

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Superman, saviour, sociopath

Up, up and hey wait a moment...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

You’d think Stephen King would be the ideal chronicler of current American politics, from the hold Donald Trump has on his disciples to the picture-perfect towns of the hinterland revealed as incubators of sadism. My latest, free to read anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/stephen-ki...

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Stephen King and the Heart of Donald Trump

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

'I can’t tell you for certain that Thomas Magnum, the greatest floral-noir detective, ever looked at the Hawaiian sunrise and murmured, “Another day in paradise…”' In which I welcome you to a new free-to-read column. Get in. It'll be fun. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon

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Welcome to Another Day In Paradise

I can’t tell you for certain that Thomas Magnum, the greatest floral-noir detective, ever looked at the Hawaiian sunrise and murmured, “Another day in paradise…”

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"As we end the session reminiscing I feel quietly proud that Mary Watson and I have managed to insert Stefano DiMera, satanic levitation and space twins into the country’s leading literary festival..." Some Sunday thoughts on a bookish month. tomeaton.substack.com/p/notes-on-a...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Packing my winter woolies for a reportedly chilly Joburg and looking forward to tomorrow night's launch of 'An Act of Murder'. If you're near Sandton, pull through to Exclusive Books at sixish and come and say hello.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Johannesburg! Arnold Prinsloo is coming home as we launch ‘An Act of Murder’ next Thursday in Sandton*, and it would be grand to see you there. I'll be chatting to the excellent Michelle Constant, so both you and I will be in safe hands. * OK technically Arnold lives in Melville but close enough...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Some brief thoughts on book launches, and why I'd be delighted if you came to mine. tomeaton.substack.com/p/launching-...

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Launching in three... two...

Save the date(s)

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Friends! 'An Act of Murder' is arriving soon, and I'd be delighted and honoured if you'd come to one of its launches, whether at the Book Lounge in Cape Town on 10 April or the Oude Leeskamer in Stellies on 16 April. (I'll also be in Joburg in May, but more of this anon.) All details below.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hello world! It’s only hitting the shelves on 1 April but I couldn’t wait any more because JUST LOOK AT IT! Thanks again, Penguin Random House SA. I couldn't be more delighted.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

ICYMI: Candide urged us to cultivate our own inner gardens, and for the last two years I’ve been trying to cultivate mine, largely via the writing of my first novel in almost two decades. tomeaton.substack.com/p/let-us-cul...

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Let us cultivate our garden

... and also some news

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Not today, Satan. A new post, in which I wonder about the purpose of spiky writing, and announce some booky news. tomeaton.substack.com/p/let-us-cul...

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Let us cultivate our garden

... and also some news

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Page proofs done, with a pencil carefully covering a massive spoiler. Watch this space...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

ICYMI: How do we stay in touch with each other as as the big social media platforms go goose-stepping away into the darkening distance? tomeaton.substack.com/p/there-and-...

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There and back again

So this is where we're @

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's probably time to go. There are termites in the beams. There’s rising damp in the basement. The landlord is a billionaire who’s started waterboarding you with disinformation. You know. The usual. A short piece in praise of an unexpected hero. (No, not him.) tomeaton.substack.com/p/there-and-...

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There and back again

So this is where we're @

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Fun fact - the "roman salute" is a myth. There is no mention anywhere in Roman literature or iconography of such actions. We think otherwise because of films and 19th-century art ... oh yes and the Italian fascists and Nazis who pretended it was a thing. One might even call it "Fake history".

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This episode. Was it even an episode? A memory of a fever dream? What an artist. Thank you, David Lynch.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In case you missed my tale of pitiable tech woe yesterday, just a quick reminder that I am (back) on Substack after a self-inflicted absence. Looking forward to sharing some good things this year. tomeaton.substack.com

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A Note From Tom Eaton | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read A Note From Tom Eaton, a Substack publication. Launched 4 days ago.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In which I return to Substack after far too long and make a rather startling discovery. (To everyone who subscribed to me back then: please read this, witness my shame, and then resubscribe...) tomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon

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A second first post

Tap tap tap... Is this thing on?

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I've not ventured onto Instagram before now, but next year is promising some exciting things, so here I go... www.instagram.com/tomeatonhisi...

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My Bluesky algorithms, like my dog Honey, seem to be full of love and enthusiasm but are hopelessly untrained. So far my Discover is all manga elves, UK football, and Americans justifiably excited about American libraries. Also, shouting "Leave it! Drop it!" seems to have no effect.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A slightly surreal sight on Constantia main road: a truck transporting a very dead whale to its final resting place. Traffic backed up for miles behind it, providing a slightly grumpy unwilling funeral procession. That's its mouth at the front, drooping off the truck.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Moving here after the last few years in That Place is quite disorienting. A bit living on a busy road teeming with aggressively bad drivers and waking up one morning to discover it's been turned into a park. How does one even behave in such tranquility?

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello everyone. I'm a writer of opinions, a few novels, some television, a film, and far too many tweets, and I'm here for the blue sky.

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