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Keggie Carew's remarkable debut Dadland: A Journey Into Unchartered Territory has won the Costa Biography Award 2016. The book was hailed as "hilarious and heartbreaking" by the judges. Keggie grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for all. Dadland is that journey. It takes us into shadowy corners of history, a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. Judge Sarra Manning tweeted to say she "knew how special Dadland was as soon as I read the first chapter." Keggie Carew said of her success: "It?s a lovely feeling that the book has resonated with other people in such a strong way.? You can find the full list of winners here. Previous praise for Dadland: "OH THIS BOOK. Beautiful and fierce and brave. Memory and war and family and loss and, well, wow" - Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk "Compelling and moving from start to finish... Carew's funny, fascinating and unflinching tribute to her father is a portrait of a complex man: not just a war hero but a much-missed dad" - Financial Times "A beautifully written, funny and tender ode to an adventurous, occasionally frustrating, man who lived life at full tilt" - Good Housekeeping "A rich and stunning achievement, a feat of imagination that sews together many parallel true stories. Above all it is a labour of shining daughterly love" - Sunday Express

Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton's Football School: Where Football Explains the World has been selected for the shortlist of the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017 for the Best Book with Facts category. The shortlist contains three titles in total, with another three titles in the Best Story category. The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000. The judges are Blue Peter editor Ewan Vinnicombe, Waterstones Children's Book Buyer Florentyna Martin, Radio DJ Nihal Arthanayake and author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre. Go to the Booktrust website here for more details.

Keggie Carew's debut, Dadland, has been selected for the Biography category shortlist for this year's Costa Book Awards. The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children?s Book - with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year, announced at an awards ceremony in London in January. Melding memoir, biography, history, travel and urgent story-telling, Dadland takes us on an unforgettable journey. As her octogenarian father?s mind dissolves into dementia, Keggie Carew uncovers a story whose facts could hardly survive in fiction. Tom Carew was a SOE officer in a special unit of the British Army, called the Jedburghs, who parachuted into occupied enemy territory to raise local resistance and carry out sabotage, first in WW2 with the maquis in France, and then into Burma, working to liberate the country with Ang San (Suu Kui?s father). Keggie?s lens is at once intimate and personal but it pans out to a global perspective, into the shadier areas of British history and beyond. The narrative continues through a century, to the present day, woven with fragments and snapshots of a family history that, though unusual, speaks to us all. Tom Carew was a rule breaker and a maverick. Dadland is his daughter?s road to truth and attempt at reconciliation. It is a manhunt. In which she finds a technicolour life caught in the web of a slowly unravelling mind. Written with great fluidity, blazing with love and intelligence, this is a deeply human work that defies genre. The judges said that the book was ?A bravura tale of derring-do ? stylish, unconventional and utterly hilarious.?

Anna Smaill has won Best Novel at this year's World Fantasy Awards for her debut novel, The Chimes, which was also longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. The Chimes is set in a reimagined London, in a world where people cannot form new memories, and the written word has been forbidden and destroyed. In the absence of both memory and writing is music. In a world where the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphony, all appears lost. But Simon Wythern, a young man who arrives in London seeking the truth about what really happened to his parents, discovers he has a gift that could change all of this forever. The World Fantasy Awards are voted on by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Ohio. Other shortlisted titles for this year's Novel category included Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant and N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Previous winners in this category include Ursula Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, China Mi?ville and David Mitchell.

Diana Athill's memoir, Alive, Alive Oh! has been selected for the Biography & Autobiography shortlist of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2016. As she approaches her 100th year, Athill recalls in sparkling detail the exact layout of the garden of her childhood, a vast and beautiful park attached to a large house. She relates with humour, clarity and honesty her experiences of the First and Second World Wars, her trips to Europe as a young woman and in the remarkable title chapter, describes her pregnancy at the age of forty-three, losing the baby and almost her life. With vivid memories of the past mingled with candid, wise and often very funny reflections on what it?s like to be very old, Alive, Alive Oh! reminds us what really matters, and of the joy to be found at every stage of life. The BAMB Readers Awards are sponsored by National Book Tokens, and are unique in being the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, and voted for by ordinary booklovers. Voting closes on 14th November 2016, and the winners will be announced on 24th November 2016. To view the shortlists and vote for your favourites, click here!

M. J. Arlidge's popularity continues, with the paperback release of Hide and Seek at number 5 on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the first week of publication. Arlidge's debut thriller, Eeny Meeny, was the UK's bestselling crime debut of 2014. Hide and Seek is the sixth thriller in the bestselling DI Helen Grace series. DI Grace is one of the country's best detectives. Until - framed for murder - she became one of its most high-profile prisoners. HMP Holloway is a place of dark days and long nights with dangers at every turn. Despised by the inmates and reviled by the guards, Helen must face her nightmare alone. And then a carefully mutilated body is found in a locked cell. Now Helen must find a ruthless serial killer. Before the killer finds her.

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec's stunning book Dear Data is a 2016 finalist for Graphic Design & Data Vizualization in the Innovation by Design Awards. This year?s entries represented an astonishingly strong survey of innovation around the globe?over 1,700 designs. Of those, only 321 finalists were crowned. Each of those projects represent what's best about design today: Big ideas, meticulously thought-out details, and a clear viewpoint about how we live now?and how it could be better. Dear Data represents a years' worth of correspondence between authors Lupi and Posavec. The two exchanged hand-drawn postcards with sketches illustrating different, delightful compositions?say, chronicling a week of what made them laugh, or how many times they said ?good night??that allowed them to look at their lives and friendship with a whole new perspective.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave's debut The Girl of Ink & Stars has been selected for the BookTrust's brand new campaign, Time to Read. Research shows that a child who reads for fun will do better at school, even in subjects like maths. The campaign promotes reading in primary schools all over the country, encouraging children to pick up new books, and parents to read with them for ten minutes every day. Click here for more information about the Time to Read Campaign, including tips and reading suggestions for parents and teachers. Click here to see the booklist.

Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi, creators of Dear Data, a year-long analog data drawing project, have been nominated in the graphics category for the prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year awards. The prize, for 2D work where graphic design is the key to the project?s success ? this could be beautifully executed packaging, books, magazines, identities, digital, films, animation, street art, exhibition design, posters or typefaces, will be announced later on this year. Find out more about Dear Data here: http://www.dear-data.com/theproject

It was announced today that The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing, an "electric, dazzling" investigation into what it means to be alone, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. Launched in 2012 to remember the late Faber author who wrote across a wide range of subjects, from celebrity to serial killers and politics to contemporary art, The Gordon Burn Prize seeks to celebrate the writing of those whose work follows in his footsteps. The winner will be announced on Friday 7th October at the opening of Durham Book Festival, a Durham County Council festival produced by New Writing North. The winning writer will receive a cheque for ?5,000 and the opportunity to undertake a writing retreat of up to three months at Gordon Burn?s cottage in the Scottish borders. Also shortlisted are the Man Booker Prize-longlisted titles All That Man Is by David Szalay and Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, And The Sun Shines Now by Harry Parker and A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son?s Search for his Mother by Jeremy Gavron. The judges of the 2016 prize are the novelists Jenn Ashworth and William Boyd, journalist and writer Rachel Cooke, and the artist and author Harland Miller. Ashworth said: ?It?s been an honour and a fascinating privilege to be involved in reading and discussing such a varied and accomplished selection of books for this year?s prize. I admire Gordon Burn?s work for its uncompromising precision, its fearlessness and its humanity. On the shortlist we have fine examples of writers working across a number of genres and in both fiction and non-fiction who we believe are working with that same commitment to truth-telling and have created works which explore who and why we are, without sentiment or cynicism.? Boyd praised the "wonderfully rich and eclectic shortlist", saying that "every book is a genuine contender".

Alex Bellos, author of Snowflake Seashell Star, Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking Glass, was on Saturday night presented with the Dr Katharine Giles Science blog award for his blog, Adventures in Numberland. The award was presented by the Association of British Science Writers at the Blue Dot festival at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire. The chair of the judges, Martin Ince, said Bellos?s blog, which is on maths and is part of the Guardian?s Science Blog Network, ?reveals amazement in a few tight sentences drawing you in even if you sometimes get lost along the way?. The prize is awarded in memory of Dr Katharine Giles, a scientist working at the Centre for Polar Observation and Measurement at University College London, who died in 2013. Click here to view the full awards list.

Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library is awarded for an entire body of work rather than an individual book. Elly Griffiths is the author of the Dr Ruth Galloway series of forensic archaeology mysteries and the Stephens & Mephisto series, and her work has consistently received critical acclaim. The first Dr Ruth Galloway book, The Crossing Places, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year, as were The Outcast Dead in 2014 and The Ghost Fields in 2015.

The paperback release of Little Boy Blue, the fifth book in M.J. Arlidge's DI Helen Grace series, has gone straight in at number 10 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List, after the hardback also hit the bestseller charts in March this year. A huge marketing campaign supports this book, in which DI Grace investigates a body in a nightclub. Detective Inspector Helen Grace is no stranger to tragedy. But when a body is found in a Southampton nightclub, the death cuts too close to the bone. Hiding her personal connection to the victim - and a double-life which must remain secret at all costs - Helen becomes a woman possessed, working her team around the clock to chase down every lead. As the killer strikes again, the investigation takes its toll not only on Helen but also her senior officers. Tempers flare, friendships fray and Helen faces an impossible choice. Confess her sins and lose control of the case? Or keep living a lie, protecting her darkest secrets, and risk getting trapped in this tangled web? But whatever she does, this killer will not stop until the truth is revealed: there are some fates worse than death... Little Blue Boy follows the successes of the rest of the series, maintaining an unbroken streak of top ten bestsellers. The first in the series, Eeny Meeny, was the biggest selling debut crime novel of 2014. The sixth book, Hide and Seek, will be published in September.

Sunjeev Sahota's Booker-shortlisted The Year of the Runaways was honoured with the Literature prize at Sunday's South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Now celebrating their 20th anniversary, the awards are presented annually to "the very best of British culture and achievement." Read more about the awards and the winners here.