When things happen in a family as they do in 'The Spilt' by Imbi Neeme, blame can be apportioned unfairly, this leads to moments of regret for things said to hurt, or things not said at all.   What would have happened had Captain Cook been shipwrecked on the shores of a new continent instead of bumping into a reef? Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick explore this interesting notion in their novel, 'On a Barbarous Coast'.