"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.

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...

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.

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

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

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