Join Emma Swan - author, actor, award-winning comedian and West-End star of Horrible Histories - for a warm, funny and gloriously unusual children's event focussing on her bestselling mystery series: Cruise Ship Kid, based on her childhood growing up on cruise ships. This interactive workshop for young readers that explores both Emma’s Waterstone’s Book of The Month debut Cruise Ship Kid: Thief at Sea! And her new novel Cruise Ship Kid: Kidnap at Sea! - two action-packed stories about growing up in the most unexpected of places, and discovering that home is wherever your people are.
 
Suitable for children age 5+
 
Format: Interactive Workshop
Themes: Fiction, Children, New Voices
 
Emma Swan Books: Cruise Ship Kid: Thief at Sea!, Cruise Ship Kid: Kidnap at Sea!
Emma Swan is a writer, actor, award-winning comedian and West-End star of Horrible Histories. Originally from Rotherham, she also has a slightly unhealthy Yorkshire tea addiction! Her theatre work has been performed at the Arcola, the Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. She is also a lyricist and won Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards.
In the West End, she has performed at the Garrick, Apollo and Barbican theatres and her other acting credits include the RSC and Doctor Who. Emma also narrates many audiobooks and has a very professional studio in her flat that may or may not be made out of sofa cushions and a duvet.
Emma's bestselling debut children's book, Cruise Ship Kid: Thief at Sea!, based on her childhood growing up on cruise ships, was a Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and won both the Newcomer and the Readers' Choice at the Books are My Bag Readers Awards in 2025.