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Makeup is art
Just wanted to highlight this gorgeous book by Jana Ririnui. Ririnui was born in Invercargill and is now based in London. He started out at age 14, working for free in a local hair salon before moving to Australia to realise his dream of becoming a hairdresser. It was in Australia that he was approached by a modelling agency and, whilst Ririnui loved the modelling lifestyle, he soon discovered that it was in make-up artistry where his true passion lay.
Lost in Shangri-La
Lost in Shangri-La – a true story, is written by Mitchell Zuckoff. Towards the end of World War II, a US Army transport plane crashed in a remote, uncharted valley in the mountains of New Guinea. The valley, named Shangri-La by the survivors, was populated by numerous, constantly warring stone-age tribes, untouched by the modern world. There was no way in to the valley except by plane – there were no tracks or roads, the mountain passes were too high and the air too thin to allow a helicopter rescue, and the jungle was too thick to allow them to build a runway. Injured and afraid, the survivors spent seven weeks in this isolated paradise, unsure of how, or even if, they would be rescued.
Stories I only tell my friends
Actor (
and now author) Rob Lowe gives us the low-down on his career in show biz. A teen idol at age 15, a member of Hollywood’s “Brat Pack” at age 20, and now a top star and talented producer – Rob Lowe has appeared in an impressive list of movies, TV series and theatre productions. In this carefully worded memoir, Lowe describes the film industry and the stars he has been associated with over the years. He talks about the wild excesses of the eighties, his battle with the bottle, and sets the record straight on that incident with the two underage girls.
The psychopath test
by Jon Ronson 
Journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist and asked to help solve a puzzle. In the process of investigating this mystery, he meets a renowned psychologist, developer of the industry standard checklist created to help identify psychopaths, and who believes that many prominent CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths.
Bossypants
Bossypants is not so much a memoir of her life but more the story of how Tina Fey came to be a well-known actor/comedian/writer. Fey tells how she started out in acting by participating in “Summer showtime” – a kind of drama/improv training camp - during her school holidays. This lead to an opportunity to join the ‘Saturday Night Live” crew, first as an actor then as a writer. Then there came “30 Rock” followed by the Sarah Palin impersonation, which went viral on the internet..
