The world ended. The animals carried on.
Flo was born in a cage. He was never meant to see the world beyond it. But when the only human he has ever known disappears, Flo finds himself alone in a vast, rust-red wilderness built from the ruins of the giants' world.
Out here, survival is a matter of water, shelter, and knowing when to run. The old world has left behind strange machines, abandoned roads, and secrets that no animal fully understands. Flo, however, has a gift: he watches, he listens, and he works things out. Where others see useless wreckage, he sees possibilities.
His journey leads him to a windmill colony struggling to survive in a harsh and unforgiving landscape. Its inhabitants have their own histories, rivalries, fears, and ways of doing things. When a powerful enemy threatens their home and their water supply, Flo must decide whether to keep moving or stand alongside animals he barely knows.
He has no army, no great strength, and no guarantee that his clever plans will work. What he has is an unusual understanding of the machines the giants left behind, a mind that refuses to stop asking questions, and the growing realisation that survival sometimes means protecting more than yourself.
The first battle will test everything he has learned. Its aftermath will reveal a far greater threat.
Somewhere beyond the horizon, someone called Red is building something. And Flo has just discovered that the trouble at the windmill is only the beginning.
Woop Woop is the first book in Back o' Bourke, an adventure set in the Australian outback after the collapse of human civilisation. Blending animal characters, inventive problem-solving, danger, dry humour, and the hard choices of building a community, it asks what happens when the old world disappears—and what kind of world the survivors choose to make in its place.
The giants are gone. Their machines remain. And the future belongs to those clever enough to understand them.
