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Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train
Bitter Honey
Engaged Compassion
Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
Alice Chen's Reality Check
Mama Rita: Family recipes from the Mediterranean
Good Things
Storm: Dawn of a Goddess
I Am a Cat
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Grounded Success
Yoshuku: The Japanese Art of Manifesting
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
The Amberglow Candy Store
Journeys of Empire
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Discipline
Night of the Living Rez
Snake Talk
Fierceland
The White Possessive
Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic
Caste: A Global Story
The Gaza Catastrophe
On A Woman's Madness
Elevator in Sai Gon
Florida Water
The Hidden Light of Objects
State of Emergency
Orange Wine
Summer at Mount Asama
Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife
Black Salt Queen (Letters from Maynara 1)
Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names
Gaza in My Phone
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
Sōseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
The Essential Akutagawa
The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology
Redtails in the Sunset
Cowboy
Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse
The Dirty Version
The Verifiers
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
The Sea Gives Up the Dead
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
Amplify started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. In the physical shop, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, and crafting workshops, as well as book launches and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less 'diverse' books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
Representation is important.
