"You don't have to love golf to thoroughly enjoy this rollicking and at times howlingly funny novel about the game.....[Niven] also sneaks in some bona fide insights about family, and gratifying plotlines of revenge, romance, and friendship." -- Penthouse

"Believe it or not, this novel makes golf look interesting. Trust me. This is a writer who could wring laughs out of pretty well anything. . . . Hilarious." -- The Times (London)

"A novel about golf that is not only hilarious, but gripping, sexy, violent, and outrageous. . . . Niven combines his increasingly bizarre plots, and some shocking behaviour, with considerable skill and, of course, large helpings of humor." -- The Mirror

"The Amateurs shouldn't work yet Niven is a master storyteller who switches between humour and violence with disconcerting ease." -- Shortlist

"Brilliantly funny....That it is hugely entertaining is not a surprise but the fact that I lost hours reading about golf courses, and actually cared, is this month's most winning pleasure." -- Word magazine

"This tale of Gary Irvine, a hopeless golfer who, after an accident, becomes a phenomenal player, is peppered with brilliant moments." -- GQ

"A raucous, filthy novel of golf." -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly

"The Amateurs is a comedic piece of lad-lit filled with golf and gangsters . . . the author of Kill Your Friends proves that one's second novel can be just as humorous as the first." -- Scottish Review of Books