A powerful, suspenseful tale about a father and son in search of one another, this prize-winning novel based on real-life events is a classic western story of vengeance and redemption set against the sweeping, merciless grandeur of the Australian frontier.

It is the summer of 1874. Launceston, a colonial outpost on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, hovers on the brink of anarchy, teeming with revolutionaries, convicts, drunks, crooked cops, and poor strugglers looking for a break. Outlaw Thomas Toosey races to this dangerous bedlam to find his motherless twelve-year-old son before the city swallows the child whole, but he is pursued by more than just the law. Hindering his progress at every turn is a man to whom he owes a terrible debt: the vengeful Irishman Fitheal Finn, whose hooded companion hides a grotesque secret.

Brilliantly told in galloping, lyrical prose and infused with gothic tones reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Woodrell, and William Faulkner, To Name Those Lost is a gripping story of fatherly devotion and of one man’s search for moral bearings in a lawless society.

Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Award for Best Novel

Rohan Wilson
Rohan Wilson was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists in 2012. His debut novel, The Roving Party, won the 2011 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award as well as the Margaret Scott Prize, Tasmanian Literary Awards in 2013 and NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2012. To Name Those Lost won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Award for Best Novel. He lives in Tasmania.

• Mar 20 2017
  “Fierce, brutal, brilliant, beautiful.”
  — Star Tribune
• Feb 27 2017
  “Nothing is as it appears”
  — Fiction Writers Review
• Feb 7 2017
  “Definitely worthy of attention, [Wilson's] work is big: it encompasses large, important themes, and at the same time, is completely unique.”
  — The Bowed Bookshelf
• Feb 1 2017
  Editors' Pick
  — Historical Novels Review
• Jan 27 2017
  “Highly recommended.”
  — Library Journal (Starred Review)
• Jan 26 2017
  “Wilson’s evocation of the Tasmanian setting is pitch-perfect, as are his characterization and the suspense maintained throughout this exquisitely wrought novel.”
  — Booklist (Starred Review)