Collection:
South Africa
Next Level Love
What We Owe the Water
Cape Fever
Strange Nature
Grievance: In Fragments
The Cleaner
Dying for Freedom
Ride or Die
A Walk in the Night
An Image in a Mirror
We Have Everything We Need To Start Again
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
Scatterlings
Long Walk To Freedom
The Burning Land
Sugar Town Queens
Runaways
Our Separate Ways
Born a Crime
Soul Sisters
History of South Africa
A Wreath for Udomo
Blood to Poison
The Boy Who Never Gave Up
Black Lion
Children of Sugarcane
Hosting with the Lazy Makoti
Letter to Petya Dubarova
In Bibi's Kitchen
A Ghost in Shining Armour
Years of Fire and Ash
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw
Mine Boy
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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.
