Tom Eaton is a writer, living in Cape Town, where he is the husband of Tanya and a figure of mild disappointment to their dog, Honey.

Over the past 20 years he has been a columnist for the Mail & Guardian, Noseweek, Sunday Times Day and Business Day. He has published four novels ? The De Villiers Code, an instant bestseller, Texas, The Wading, which was described by Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee as "refreshingly original in conception and assured in its prose style" and An Act of Murder. He has also written two non-fiction books, The Unauthorised History of South Africa and his latest, Is It Me Or Is It Getting Hot In Here? He has 110 000 followers on Twitter, 9000 friends and followers on Facebook, and the therapy bills to prove it.