Early reviews of Monica Ali's Brick Lane are out. The Guardian casts a jaundiced eye on The Telegraph review, commenting sardonically that "there was hope for hype". In the Indian Express, Mini Kapoor doesn't allow the hype to influence her either way: "In the end, however, Ali — presented to us neatly packaged and labelled as one of Granta’s 20 best young British novelists of the decade — emerges untarnished." More.