Collection:
Black
Yesterday is History
Africa in Fashion
After the Rain
Batter Royale
You Can Do It
12 Notes
A Brief History of Protest Art
Cuts Both Ways
Hopeless Kingdom
Only on the Weekends
Friday Black
We Lie Here
The Disordered Cosmos
Do You Take This Man
Black Star
Buses Are A Comin'
Red Dust Road
The Second Time We Met
Tate Photography: Liz Johnson-Artur
Soul Sisters
Lead Me Astray
The Monsters We Defy
Never Tell
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
How to Build a Healthy Brain
Song for Almeyda & Song for Anninho
Friends Don't Tell
History of South Africa
Love is a Revolution
Notes of a Native Son
Freshwater
Hood Feminism
Darling
My Darkest Prayer
Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicles #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)
Who Am I, Again?
The Cult of Progress
The Weakness in Me
A Wreath for Udomo
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
This Here Flesh
Unleashing your Hero
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits
In It to Win It
Maybe An Artist: a graphic memoir
The Ways of White Folks
Burn Down, Rise Up
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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.