Mo, Timothy (1950– )

British novelist. His works are mainly set in Hong Kong (where he was born) and the East Indies, though Sour Sweet (1982; filmed 1988) describes a Triad-threatened Chinese family of restaurateurs in London, and is full of realistic detail and brisk humour.

An Insular Possession (1986) is a comprehensive historical novel about the Opium Wars; The Redundancy of Courage (1991) deals with guerrillas in East Timor; and Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995) and Renegade or Halo2 (1999), both of which he published himself, are set in the Philippines.