This volume contains three novellas: The Clayfield: A young lad is growing from a boy to a teen in a 1950s army camp in England. Like any lad he has dreams and adventures - but he has a growing awareness of another, less cosy world beyond his child-horizons. Decency and Honour: Canberra, 1971 - the fervent spirit of the demos (combined with military tactics and ethos); the war; the prankersterism of the socially committed and the racism of the anti-racists. A Paperknife and a Broken Oar: The evolution of the relationship between two men - one the eternal outsider who feels compelled to relive the past and the other the sometime friend who fails to understand.