Collection:
Products
A Ghost in Shining Armour
A Walk in the Night
A Wreath for Udomo
An Image in a Mirror
Black Lion
Blood to Poison
Born a Crime
Cape Fever
Children of Sugarcane
Dying for Freedom
Grievance: In Fragments
History of South Africa
Hosting with the Lazy Makoti
In Bibi's Kitchen
Letter to Petya Dubarova
Long Walk To Freedom
Mine Boy
Next Level Love
Our Separate Ways
Ride or Die
Runaways
Scatterlings
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw
Soul Sisters
Strange Nature
Sugar Town Queens
The Boy Who Never Gave Up
The Burning Land
The Cleaner
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
We Have Everything We Need To Start Again
What We Owe the Water
Years of Fire and Ash
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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.
