Parlour Games for Friends and Family

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card games
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dice games
drawing game
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family card games
family engagement
family fun
family games
forthcoming
games to play
games with words
hide and seek
indoor games
marbles game
number game
parlour games
rainy day activity
simple games
strategy games
word games
writing game

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  • ISBN 9781917189828
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)

Parlour Games for Friends and Family sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games: push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some mental stimulation, silliness and laughter, joy and connection back into your living room.

This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. Not a single game requires equipment that you won’t find in your average home: a pack of cards, a dictionary, an hourglass, dice, paper and pen.

Games are organised thematically and referenced for age appropriateness. All are set out with clear rules and instructions. There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night, and games to fill that empty half-hour before tea; games for adults and older children, and games for your four-year-old’s birthday party.

Parlour Games for Friends and Family, a book for fun-lovers aged four to 104, winds back the clock to remind you of games you’d forgotten and then a whole lot more. Whether you dip into it as the urge takes you or read it from cover to cover, a very good time is guaranteed.

Myfanwy Jones is the author of three novels: The Rainy Season, shortlisted for the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Leap, shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award; and Cool Water. She lives by a creek on Wurundjeri Country, in Naarm/Melbourne, and always carries a pack of cards. Spiri Tsintziras is the author of three memoirs: Afternoons in Ithaka; My Ikaria: How the People From a Small Mediterranean Island Inspired Me to Live a Happier, Healthier, and Longer Life; and Twelve Golden Gifts: How a Mother’s Wisdom and Grace Helped One Family Come to Terms With Her Dementia. When she is not writing words, she rejoices in playing with them. You can find her writing at www.writingspirit.com.au.

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