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Hafiz's Little Book of Life
Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali
Sign of the Slayer
24 Hours in Italy
Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
Will Do Magic for Small Change
Untethered Sky
Black Rican Vegan
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Our Fault
Losing the Plot
Undiscovered
The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society
So Close
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
The Persuaders
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
You've Been Played
The Great White Bard
Anansi's Gold
Life Ceremony
The Black Lizard
POWER
Racial Wellness: A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
Nubia: The Reckoning
Owed
The Illuminated
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group
Come and Get It
On the Rooftop
Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2)
Glorious Exploits
Tremor
Disobedient Bodies
A Bollywood State of Mind
The Silver Chain
The Matchmaker
The Factory
Kibogo
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition (Asian Arguments)
Uyghur Poems
The Spy Coast (Martini Club #1)
No Room in Neverland
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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.
