Collection:
History & Culture
Refugee Memory as Resistance: The Making of Tamil History
Indigenous Knowledge: Global Perspectives
The Rise and Fall of China's Economic Miracle: 1950 - 2030
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control
The Art of Opposition
Gods, Guns and Missionaries
Cinnamon: a history of taste and empire
Finding Justice: From Courtroom to Country
The Ancient Cities and Global Trade of Palestine: A 7,000 Year History
Reality TV for Snobs
The Camphor War: Taiwan in the Age of Imperial Realignments (Critical Perspectives on Taiwan)
Indigenous Punk, Metal, and Hard Rock
The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad
Privileged but Powerless
Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy
The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule
Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Palestine: A Short History
Peasants: Makers of the Modern World
How Black Music Took Over the World
The Cult of the Fox
The Illustrated Guide to Shinto
Cinderella: A Cultural History
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
The Elders
Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right
The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire
Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam
Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain
Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Transforming Humanitarian Partnerships
On the Mark
The Edge of Space-Time
Mosque: An Architect's Exploration of Form, Faith and Meaning
Objects & Us: Why Things Matter
Data Empire: How information shaped human history
The Music is Black: A British Story
Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic
All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Black Thought Matters: Africana Philosophy and Freedom
Axis of Empire
Love in the Afternoon, and Evening
Sweet Nothings: Power, lust and learning
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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.