Dennis remembered soft yellow sunbeams drifting through his bedroom window, dust drifting in the warm morning light.
That world is gone.
We live now beneath the harsh white sun of the collapse —
and we may be the last generation who remembers anything different.
We can only hope for the day we finally witness
the last of the white sun.
A series of books by Alasdair Adam
Last Of the White Sun.
The end of the world is just the beginning.
A grounded, Thought provoking, often humorous and sometimes brutal look at an apocalypse, without zombies, mutant viruses and over used clichés. Just people trying to survive in a world that suddenly stops.
Key Characters
Dennis - The messy leader.
A practical, stubborn and unexpectedly funny every man who reluctantly becomes the backbone of the community. Dennis didn’t ask to lead, but his impetuous temperament keeps landing him in the centre of the troubles.
Trinity - The new generation
Rescued as a child at the start of the collapse, Trinity grows up in the new world with no nostalgia for the old one. Sharp, intuitive and quietly fearless, she becomes the bridge between the world that fell and the world that must rise.
Garth - The Healer
A paramedic and Dennis’s neighbour who gets dragged into the helping with the crisis of the diseases wiping out communities. His help earns respect, though the others suffer a little with his hero complex.
Tracie - A hairdresser
Feisty, brave and practical. Tracie is a fan favourite. Her past training as a nurse sees her pitching in to help rebuild in a thankless collapsing world. Her encounter with an old soldier will change her life.
Bob - Metal Mickey
It would take more than the apocalypse to shake Bob’s steadfast nature-he just wants to do his job. He rarely moans or complains, even when at deaths door. A rock for the group.
Woogie - A farmer with shotguns
Beaded, big, sentimental and the strength of three men. Almost every village has a woogie. A practical and deceptively intelligent pillar of strength-soft only for his female dog Claude.
Sophie- The light in the dark.
Tracie’s best friend and Dennis’s much better half. Her spiritual outlook has a deep impact on Trinity and henceforth the new world that will eventually unfold.
Kieran- The handyman
Each has their role to play in the survival of each other and few are as essential as Kieran. His practical nature helps keep the camp warm, stoves lit and - most importantly-keep the water running.
Freddie - The mentor
At first this messy haired aristocrat seems useless with his dicky leg and rambling stories. But its not long before his experience helps Dennis reshape his outlook of the new world;
Damien- Fashion blogger
Garth’s boyfriend, and at first a deadweight they seem stuck with - the cost of gaining an ambulance. But Damien quickly becomes the light and humour of the group, lifting spirits when times are toughest. He proves it takes more than muscle to be a strong man.
Cal - The baddie ?
Not everyone lives in the countryside, and those that wander out of the estates do what they must to survive. Cal is ruthless because he thinks he has to be. Clashes with Saxon Vale turn deadly. And the viewer is left wondering if they would do the same.
Ken - The butcher
Few professions become as valued as that of a butcher, and Ken is a good one. An ex con who has long since changed his ways - if not his accent - he takes pride in preserving the initial supply of meat. Which comes from the die - off of the herds.
Synopsis
Collapse
When the world’s power abruptly fails, Britain collapses in days. Panic spreads faster than disease, and the systems people trusted fall silent overnight. Dennis, a stubborn, practical city-dweller, has no intention of becoming a leader—but survival has other plans.
A mismatched group forms around him: Tracie, a hairdresser with half-forgotten medical training; Garth, a paramedic whose certainty crumbles with every patient he can’t save; Woogie, a farmer with a shotgun and a sentimental streak; Sophie, the quiet spiritual heart; Bob, the lorry driver who never complains; and Kieran, whose practicality keeps them alive. None of them are heroes. All of them are frightened, flawed, and cold.
As food runs out and the countryside fills with bodies, they begin making compromises they once thought unthinkable—taking from the dead, lying and looting to survive, starting fights they shouldn’t. One early mistake spirals into a violent feud with Cal, a survivor convinced he’s the one defending his people.
With no truth circulating, neither side knows who struck first. Both believe they’re the threatened ones. Both are right.
But a deeper fear is spreading. People whisper that the blackout is only the first stage of something far older—a natural cycle the Earth has repeated every 12,000 years, long before humans invented myths to explain it. Legends of floods, lost lands and rising islands weren’t supernatural after all; they were memories of the last reset. Many dismiss it even as the government flees Britain.
When Dennis rescues Trinity, a young girl whose intuition unnervingly cuts through the chaos- the group realises survival isn’t about being good—it’s about living with what you’ve done… and what’s coming next.
The Last of the White Sun is a grounded, character-driven apocalypse where ancient “myths” turn out to be the everyday mechanics of a changing planet—setting the stage for a larger story of rebirth, lost lands, and the civilisation that might rise from the ashes.