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Art | Biography & Memoir | Business | Classics | Coffee Table Books | Cookbooks & Food | Environment | Essays | Feminism | Finance | Guidebooks | Graphic Novels | Health | History & Culture | Journalism | Lifestyle | Music | Nature | Philosophy | Parenting | Politics | Pop Science | Race | Reading & Writing | Self-Help | Spirituality | Travel | True Crime
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West
The Tribe
The Manga Guide to Japanese Food
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed
One of Us Knows
Dragon Rider
Norteña: Authentic Family Recipes from Northern Mexico
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories
Big Fat Brown Bitch
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour
When I open the shop
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel
The Many Hundreds of the Scent
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
Under the Tamarind Tree
Godly Heathens
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals
Dead Flip
How You Grow Wings
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
An African History of Africa
One Stop
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
Calm Your Mind with Food
Decolonizing the Theatre Space
Mural
Blackouts
Room 216
Parasol Against the Axe
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
All You Need is Rhythm and Grit
Love at Six Thousand Degrees
Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey
The Leftover Woman
Saving Time
Sudden Superstar
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
The Showgirl and the Minister
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir
Drinking with Wizards, Warriors and Dragons
Point Zero
The Encanto's Daughter
The Half Known Life
The Breakup Lists
Why We Remember
That Self-Same Metal
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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.
