Parlour Games for Modern Families 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.
 Tis 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 fnd 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. Tere are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and  games that will have you in fts; games that can last all night, and  games to fll 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 Modern Families, 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 The Rainy Season, shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize  for Literature's Best Writing Award 2010, and Leap, longlisted for the  2016 Voss Literary Prize and fnalist for the Miles Franklin Literary  Award. She lives and writes by a creek in Melbourne.
 Spiri Tsintziras along with her tribe of young and not-so-young research assistants, has  rediscovered the joy of games in the writing of this book. When she is  not playing, she writes for work and pleasure, and has had many articles  published in The Age.
 Parlour Games for Modern Families 
 Scribe
 Authors: Myfanwy Jones and Spiri Tsintziras
 ISBN: 9781921844416 
 RRP: $24.99