Collection:
Historical Fiction
Another Man in the Street
The Book of Records
A Shipwreck in Fiji
Bethnal Green
Set My Heart on Fire
Old Soul
Half Truth
Beirut
They Dream In Gold
A Piece of Red Cloth
You Dreamed of Empires
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Unexpected Diva
The Life of Herod the Great
Six Days in Bombay
The Lotus Shoes
I Am Nannertgarrook
Those Opulent Days
Curandera
The Dangerous Ones
The Sorrow of War
The Rest of You
The Volcano Daughters
The Concubine
The Parlour Wife
The Game Changer
The Phoenix Crown
River East, River West
The Lion Women of Tehran
The African Samurai
Eclipse
My Beloved Life
The Formidable Miss Cassidy
The Glass Palace
Anita and Me
The Water Dancer
Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment
Daughter in Exile
The Known World
What I Know About You
The Joy Luck Club
Wench
Curdle Creek
Overland
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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.