Oliver MilnerOliver Milner is a pseudonym. Memory Stick is typical of the type of conversations we've all had about ourselves at some time or other, Some of the facts may be distorted by time, as Laurie Lee once wrote sagaciously.
The author was born in Yorkshre, but grew up in post Biafran War Nigeria and boarding schools in England.
His career started at the Financial Times but not too soon after he lost his Territorial Army commission in the Intelligence Corps, uncovered a spy, met Madonna, Mad Dog Adair, various Prime Ministers, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and an X-rated film director.
Today he lives near Epping Forest in the UK. He is married and has two grown up daughters, a tortoise, a Labradoodle, two cats and some sickly-looking runner beans.
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