Following his popular Guardian column on the same subject, The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology will tell the full story of the year that Boyle decided to begin living without any of the conveniences we all take for granted: running water, central heating, electricity and everything it powers, including mobile phones and the internet. After building his own cabin by hand, he has to carry his water from the local spring and he has to grow, fish or forage whatever he wants to eat. What he discovers is a life of hard won joys, governed by the seasons – not an easier life, but one which brings a deep insight into what it means to be human at a time when the boundaries between man and machine are blurring