Parlour Games for Friends and Family:
130 Games of Offline Fun
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Parlour Games for Friends and Family:
130 Games of Offline Fun
Overview
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.
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- Paperback
- 198mm x 129mm
- 288 pages
- 9781917189828
- GBP£10.99
- 8 October 2026
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Awards
- Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards
- null Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
Praise
‘I was expecting to meet with a wall of resistance from our computerised children. But far from it: they all eagerly threw themselves into the game, and absolutely loved it … It was the same with all the games we have tried from this marvelous book.’
‘Wink Murder, Memory, Charades, Twenty Questions — the authors of this book sat musing over all the forgotten parlour games they used to play as children and decided they wanted a book of games, so they wrote it. With a passionate introduction that calls for the reintroduction of parlour games into family life, the authors put forward a case for family members connecting with each other via old-fashioned unplugged fun.’
About the Authors
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.