Tim Pears is the author of five novels: In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim Orchard.

In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in the USA. He lives in Oxford.

Born in 1956, Tim Pears grew up in Devon, left school at sixteen and worked in a wide variety of jobs: librarian, building labourer, nurse in a mental hospital, pianist's bodyguard, painter and decorator, sorter of mail, video maker, college night porter, art gallery manager, and others.

His first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, was published in 1993. It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award.

In 1993 Tim Pears graduated from the Direction course at the National Film and Television School. He wrote the script for a feature film, Loop, released in 1999. In 1996 Tim received a Lannan Award, in America.

His second novel, In a Land of Plenty, was published in 1997. It was also made into a ten part drama series for the BBC by Sterling Pictures (with TalkBack Productions) and broadcast in 2001.

A Revolution of the Sun was published by Doubleday in 2000.

Wake Up was published by Bloomsbury in 2002.

Tim Pears was Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature 2002-03. He has taught a good deal of creative writing, including a number of Arvon Foundation residential courses and at Ruskin College, Oxford. From September 2006 he was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, at Oxford Brookes University.

Blenheim Orchard was published by Bloomsbury in 2007.

He has published short stories and written a number of essays on sport for The Observer.

He lives in Oxford with his wife, children, and odd animals.