New Releases
Iron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3)
The Sisters of Serendib
The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Statues: Junji Ito Story Collection
The Devil in Silver
Rise of the Empress
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
The Last Contract of Isako
Nadiya's Quick Comforts
5 Ingredient Indian
The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968
Freud and the Non-European
Representations of the Intellectual
The Balancing Act
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery
Bestsellers
The Discovery Pack
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Dead and Alive: Essays
Intentional Reading Log
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
Diary of a Young Doctor
The Supercut Box
The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)
Our shopfront
Find us at
55 Peel St, West Melbourne
VIC 3003
Opening hours
Thu & Fri 11am–6pm
Sat & Sun 10am–5pm
Public transport access
Located just behind the Queen Victoria Market, Amplify is easily accessible by public transport. Your best options are:
- The 58 tram,
- A 7 minute walk from the 19, 57 and 59 trams on Elizabeth St,
- A 10 minute walk from Flagstaff train station.
Parking
Available at the QVM or on Capel Street.
Reading room
Head upstairs and settle into your next read!
Our cosy reading room is available to everyone during opening hours*, complete with a small library, board games, art gallery display, and tea station.
It is also available to rent for private events, perfect for book clubs or private launches. Contact us to learn more and book your spot.
*Unless otherwise occupied by an event or private booking.
Events
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a perfect, low-stakes way to meet new people.
Amplify's in-house book club is held on the last Thursday of every month in our reading room. Across both floors, we host various community events including speed dating, book swaps, and crafting workshops (and book launches, of course!).
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Upcoming events
Community Event: June Book Swap
Palestinian voices
Profits from the sale of Palestinian books are donated to Palestine Australia Relief and Action (PARA).
Freud and the Non-European
Representations of the Intellectual
The Moon That Turns You Back
You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine
Men in the Sun: and other Palestinian stories
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
We Call to the Eye and the Night
Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide
The Beauty of Your Face
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide
I'll Tell You When I'm Home
Intentional Reading Log
The perfect companion for your reading 💚
If you've been looking to go analogue with your reading tracker but forget to carry around a notebook for your thoughts, this is perfect for you.
Designed to prompt you to read intentionally and diversify your reading, our Reading Log is a compact, low-commitment way to track your reading.
Loosely inspired by The Story Graph, our Reading Log was made to be a physical record of your personal thoughts and reading habits, as well as a quick overview of the book itself.
Printed on a light but sturdy stock, these slips will hold up to being shuffled around your book as a bookmark, without being too stiff and heavy if you stick them in your journal instead.
30 page notepad-style
Designed for Amplify Bookstore in Singapore by Jing Tong Teo
Printed in Naarm / Melbourne by Indigiprint
An anti-racist social enterprise bookstore specialising in BIPOC books.
Amplify was born out of a frustration with the structuralised racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change to these structures.
Only about 11% of books published are by BIPOC authors — so unless you specifically seek out books by BIPOC authors, you aren't likely to find very many of them organically. At Amplify, BIPOC authors are highlighted and celebrated. Here, they don't have to fight to be seen, and you don't have to fight to find them.
We hope that in our shop, you can discover a new favourite read, find stories that speak uniquely to you, learn about a culture outside your own (or more about your own histories), and gain a better understanding of the systems that connect us all.
You can see more about why we exist here.
Tired of shopping online? Visit us in person at our West Melbourne store.
Latest book reviews
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Guest Articles
Extra content straight from authors to you. From pieces on process and language to book extracts, there’s always more to read.
Author Interviews
Why did they write that book? How did they write it? What else might they have in store? Does the writer like that annoying character?
Get an insight into authors’ thoughts in our interviews here.
Reading Lists
From lists based on geography to those based on themes (and sometimes vibes, if you will) we’ve curated some recommendations that you won’t want to miss.
Pre-loved books
The Fall of the School for Good and Evil (PL)
Crossing the Lines (PL)
Artichoke Hearts (PL)
An Equal Music (PL)
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