In his sometimes arch and overwrought language, poet C S Hughes presents a collection of his reveries, myths, wanderings and fables, in which, a young woman listens to the advice of cats, but ignores the remonstrance of birds, the young people of the Dog Clan, guided by their ancient Mother, defy and surrender to the burgeoning winter, at a funeral, by a carnival, two old soldiers defy their fears, and their strings, on a lost Antarctic shore the Gods approve as an expedition halts for a final game of cricket, by an intemperate sea a fisher-wife cares for a very strange foundling, in a city of sparkling glass washing windows is the loneliest job of all, this and much more you will find, if you surrender reason to The Book Of Fables.