Drop everything and start reading.

PAGE-TURNER: SEVERAL TITLES COMING TO A BOOK SHOP NEAR YOU

- Hein Kaiser

It's official. The festive season is a few weeks away, and so too, the annual break where the luxury of time is all most of us want for Christmas.

That and, well, a seriously good book. And who better to ask for some recommendations than the folk who put the titles on the shelves.

Gillian Spain is the sales and marketing director of Pan Macmillan in South Africa and, she said, there are several titles coming to a book shop near you that are worth checking out.

Whether it's a page turner while lounging at the beach or curled up by the fire, there's nothing quite like a good book.

Spain's hit parade starts with From Here to the Great Unknown, a personal memoir by Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis' only daughter.

Presley began the book before her unexpected death, and her daughter, actress Riley Keough, finished it. The result, said Spain, is a rare glimpse into Presley's world, painted from tapes she recorded and preserved by her daughter's pen.

"It is a really intimate portrayal of Lisa Marie's life, her family, and what it was like growing up at Graceland, where legends came and went like family friends," she said.