Tom Eaton
@tomeaton.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, columnist. My new novel 'An Act of Murder' is now available at all good bookshops. Penguin Random House SA.
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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...
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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November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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...
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...
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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November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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...
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...
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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October 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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...
'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-...
The Power Diaries: September 2025
Another glimpse into the private thoughts of the people who shape our world...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
'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-...
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...
Q&A: May I bot in?
Your latest questions
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September 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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...
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...
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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September 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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...
Citizens of the US and Europe are about to sit a very long, very difficult test. South Africa has the cheat sheet for a few of the answers. My latest. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/south-afri...
South Africa: the world’s cheat sheet for what comes next
“In a crisis, a country betrays how it feels about itself,” Jonny Steinberg wrote in his News24 column last week, suggesting that if this country’s current anxious entanglement with the Trump regime i...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Citizens of the US and Europe are about to sit a very long, very difficult test. South Africa has the cheat sheet for a few of the answers. My latest. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/south-afri...
'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...'
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The Power Diaries, August 2025
Mary-Beth Lebensraum, assistant curator, The White House
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August 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
'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...'
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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...
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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August 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
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...
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The Backstreet Boys knew what was coming
What pop can teach us about the world
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August 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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...
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"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...
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The Power Diaries, July 2025
Selected extracts from the personal journals of world leaders
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July 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"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...
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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...
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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July 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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...
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...
Superman, saviour, sociopath
Up, up and hey wait a moment...
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July 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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...
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...
Stephen King and the Heart of Donald Trump
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 incubato...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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...
'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
In which I welcome you to a new free-to-read column. Get in. It'll be fun. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon
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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July 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
'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
In which I welcome you to a new free-to-read column. Get in. It'll be fun. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon
"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...
June 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"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...
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.
May 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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...
* OK technically Arnold lives in Melville but close enough...
May 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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...
* OK technically Arnold lives in Melville but close enough...
Surprised and delighted to discover that @news24southafrica.bsky.social has run an extract from 'An Act of Murder' today. So, if you want a little taster, here you go! www.news24.com/life/books/e...
FIRST CHAPTER | 'The thing was not to panic': Tom Eaton's laugh-out-loud mystery - An Act of Murder | Life
"One day it would make a great anecdote at an award ceremony. The night I lost my show, my girlfriend and my home. How we would laugh."
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April 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Surprised and delighted to discover that @news24southafrica.bsky.social has run an extract from 'An Act of Murder' today. So, if you want a little taster, here you go! www.news24.com/life/books/e...
Some brief thoughts on book launches, and why I'd be delighted if you came to mine. tomeaton.substack.com/p/launching-...
Launching in three... two...
Save the date(s)
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March 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Some brief thoughts on book launches, and why I'd be delighted if you came to mine. tomeaton.substack.com/p/launching-...
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.
March 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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.
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.
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.
March 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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.
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.
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...
Let us cultivate our garden
... and also some news
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February 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
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...
Let us cultivate our garden
... and also some news
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February 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...