Ben Short, author of Burn: A Story Of Fire, Woods And Healing, has been interviewed by Harry Wallop for The Times.

In the interview, which you can read in full here, Ben discusses his life as a charcoal burner, leaving behind a six-figure salary in the city, and his upcoming memoir, described by Wallop as “lyrical, moving and never self-pitying. It’s a lovely book.”

Exquisitely written and laced with folklore and the history of burning, the right way to lay a hedge and the age-old wisdom of the woods, Burn is a hopeful story of transformation, a celebration of manual work and craft, and a love letter to the English landscape.