Collection:
Products
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Butterfly Effect
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
The Fugitives
The Hip-Hop MBA
The Magic Border
The Philosophy of Jazz
The Power of Music: How Music Connects Us All
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
The Weakness in Me
Tina Turner: My Love Story
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Tupac Shakur
Unbury Our Dead With Song
Unsung
Vibrate Higher
Where the Rhythm Takes You
Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Why Solange Matters
You're History
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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.
