Collection:
History & Culture
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
The Hundred Years War on Palestine
Muslim Women in Britain, 1850–1950: 100 Years of Hidden History
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
The Doctor of Hiroshima
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
It's All about the Land
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Decolonize Drag
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Disobedient Bodies
A Bollywood State of Mind
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition (Asian Arguments)
Orientalism
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Making of a Man (and Why We're Afraid to talk About It)
Nine Nasty Words
Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre
Black Fatigue
You're History
Biracial Britain
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Design in a Frame of Emotion
Underground
What to Expect When You're Immigrating
A Quantum Life
We Are Not Yet Equal
Countering Violent Extremism
The Butterfly Effect
The Next Great Migration
Black Wave
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
Gaza in Context
A Man Called Horse
Every Hill Got a Story
He Iti te Kupu
Coming of Age in the War on Terror
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Redemption
Run (Book 1)
Mississippi Solo
Passing
Remnants of Partition
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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.