Collection:
Products
A History of Burning
A Joyful Life
A Person is a Prayer
Blood and Gold
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Homecoming
How to Write About Africa
I Am the Mau and other stories
In Bibi's Kitchen
In My Dreams I Dance
Petals of Blood
Ripples in the Pool
Seasons in Hippoland
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
The House of Rust
The One Who Wrote Destiny
The River Between
The World We Once Lived In
Things They Lost
Travelling While Black
Unbury Our Dead With Song
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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.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, 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, crafting workshops, 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.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.
