Mark Boyle 2 Books Collection Set - The Moneyless Man & The Way Home - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
(The Moneyless Man), 9781786077271 (The Way Home)
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Overview
This two-book paperback set gathers Mark Boyle's most personal accounts of radical simplicity. The Moneyless Man chronicles his year spent living entirely without cash, relying on bartering, foraging, and community goodwill. The Way Home follows his later decision to abandon modern technology altogether, building a cabin by hand and living by the rhythms of sun and season. Together the two memoirs trace one man's evolving experiment in stripping life back to its essentials, offering readers a thoughtful, often funny, and always honest look at what it really takes to live with less money, less noise, and less stuff.

About the Books
Both titles in this collection come from Mark Boyle's own lived experience, and both resist easy categorization as pure how-to guides or straightforward memoir. The Moneyless Man opens with Boyle's decision, as a former business graduate, to spend a full year without spending a single cent. Readers follow him as he learns to grow food, mend clothes, build a compost toilet, and barter for the things he cannot make himself, all while grappling with the emotional and social costs of stepping outside the cash economy. It is a book about resourcefulness as much as ideology, blending practical detail with reflections on friendship, waste, and what money actually buys us. The Way Home picks up the thread several years later, after Boyle has moved to a smallholding in County Galway, Ireland. Here he turns off his phone, gives up his car, and sets out to live without electricity or running water. The book unfolds as a series of lyrical, unhurried essays on collecting spring water, learning to make fire, foraging, and fishing, and rediscovering a slower relationship with the land. Where The Moneyless Man is driven by a structured challenge, The Way Home reads more like a settled way of life, and the two books together show how Boyle's thinking about consumption, technology, and self-reliance deepened over more than a decade. Readers interested in sustainability, minimalism, off-grid living, or simply well-told personal narrative will find both books rewarding on their own and even richer read side by side.

Key Benefits

• Two complete Mark Boyle memoirs in one brand-new paperback set
• Covers both cash-free living and life without modern technology
• Blends practical skills with honest, reflective storytelling
• Ideal for readers of sustainability, minimalism, and simple-living books
• Great gift for eco-conscious friends, students, or anyone craving a slower life
• Published by Oneworld Publications, a respected independent press

Book-by-Book Guide
The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living — Boyle spends a full year sourcing food, shelter, and transport entirely without money, relying on barter, foraging, and community skill-sharing.
The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology — Boyle gives up his phone, car, and electricity to build a hand-made life on a smallholding in County Galway, Ireland.

About the Author
Mark Boyle is an Irish writer and activist, sometimes known as "The Moneyless Man," who spent three years living entirely without money. A former business graduate, he founded the online sharing community Streetbank.com and later established The Free House, a smallholding and event space in Ireland built around permaculture and gift-based values. Boyle has written columns for The Guardian and contributed to international press, radio, and television. He is the author of several books exploring simplicity, sustainability, and life beyond consumer culture, and he lives on his smallholding in County Galway.

Why You'll Love This Set
Perfect for the reader on your holiday gift list who's ready to rethink consumption, this paperback set pairs two honest, funny, and quietly radical memoirs. Whether it's a birthday gift, a book club pick, or your own summer reading, Boyle's cash-free and tech-free adventures make sustainable living feel genuinely possible and inspiring.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.