Collection:
Bestsellers
Nadiya's Quick Comforts
Freedom, Only Freedom
The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968
The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages
The Big Payback
This is not a Small Voice
A New Dawn
Journeys of Empire
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
Songs on Endless Repeat
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
How We Ended Racism
Some People Want to Shoot Me
Life Skills for a Broken World
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Bachar Houli
Memorial Drive
The Louder I Will Sing
What Happened?
Sew Chinelo
House of Music
Run (Book 1)
Aiming High
We Have No Idea
India
A Beginner's Guide to America
A Most Beautiful Thing
Overground Railroad
Across the Tracks
The Boy with Two Hearts
Everyone Versus Racism
Black Girl Finance
Keep the Receipts
Healing Ourselves
This Time for Me
A Bigger Picture
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Runaways
Maori Tribes of New Zealand
Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom
That Little Voice In Your Head
Beyond Possible
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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.