Knights Of, also known as Knights Of Media, is a

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-based independent publishing house, specialising in publishing inclusive

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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 Coldharbour Lane is a road in south London, England, that leads south-westwards from Camberwell to Brixton. The road is over long with a mixture of residential, business and retail buildings - the stretch of Coldharbour Lane near Brixton Ma ...

in Brixton, and in 2019 they established a permanent bookshop, Round Table Books, in Brixton. In 2020 Knights Of and

Jacaranda Books Jacaranda Books is a diversity-led British independent book publishing firm launched in 2012 and known for their effort tackling the gap between white authors and the BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) demographic in United Kingdom's p ...

launched a crowdfunding appeal to try to assure their survival in the face of the

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. Winner of Children’s Publisher of the Year 2022 at the British Book Awards.

Authors published

Knights Of authors include the

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writers

Jason Reynolds Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audience. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an ea ...

and Sharna Jackson and deaf author

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. In 2020 Knights Of published '' A Kind of Spark'', the debut novel of Elle McNicoll, Scottish Children’s writer that follows the efforts of an eleven-year-old

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narrator, Addie.Nicolette Jones
Children’s book of the week: A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
'' Sunday Times'', 7 June 2020. Accessed 7 June 2020.

References

External links

Knights Of website
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