Knights Of
Knights Of, also known as Knights Of Media, is a London-based independent publishing house, specializing in publishing inclusive children's books.History
Knights Of was founded in 2017 by Aimée Felone and David Stevens, who previously worked for Scholastic. In 2018 the company set up a pop-up bookshop, #ReadTheOnePercent, on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, and in 2019 they established a permanent bookshop, Round Table Books, in Brixton. In 2020 Knights Of and Jacaranda Books launched a crowdfunding appeal to try to assure their survival in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Appeal donations increased dramatically in the wake of the George Floyd protests.Authors published
Knights Of authors include the BAME writers Jason Reynolds and Sharna Jackson. In 2020 Knights Of published A Kind of Spark, the debut novel of Elle McNicoll, which follows the efforts of an eleven-year-old autistic narrator, Addie, to establish a memorial to the witch trials in her Scottish hometown.
