Timothy Peter Mo (born 30 December 1950[2]) is a British Asian novelist.
Born to a British mother and a Hong Kong father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10, when he moved to Britain.
Educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.
Since 1994 when he rejected a £125,000 advance from Random House for his next novel, he has self-published his books under the label "Paddleless Press".
His first novel to be self-published was Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard.