abstract:HEMA (originally an acronym for Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam, "Dutch Standard Prices Company Amsterdam") is a Dutch discount retail chain that started life as a dimestore. It was part of the Maxeda company until June 2007, when it was bought by Lion Capital LLP.
So it is especially enlightening to hear how he chose Ma Cocotte's furnishings, many of which are from the melting-pot period of the 1940s up to 1955, when Scandinavian and especially American influences began to filter into France.
She is nominated against former Booker rival Will Self for his novel Umbrella, and Kerry Hudson, for her debut, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma.