Collection:
Essays
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Orientalism
There are No Falling Stars in China: and Other Life Lessons from a recovering Journalist
Black Girl, No Magic: reflections on race and respectability
Intimations
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Unfree Speech
Sista Sister
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
The Most Dammed Country in the World
Decoding the World
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
What Happened?
Ain't I A Woman?
Ko Aotearoa Tatou I We Are New Zealand
Pop Song
Murakami T
Whites
Stride Toward Freedom
Letters to my White Male Friends
Trick Mirror
maar bidi: next generation black writing
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell
On Being Included
Gifts of Gravity and Light
Everyone Versus Racism
New Kings of the World
Shades of Black
Languages of Truth
You Are Your Best Thing
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Entertaining Race
Black Love Matters
Growing up Asian in Australia
You Don't Know Us Negroes and other essays
Nga Kete Matauranga
Just Us (US edition)
How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Trayvon Generation
Travelling While Black
Work. Love. Body.
Tears We Cannot Stop
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Essays in Zen Buddhism
Black Nerd Problems
The Creative Gene
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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.