Recommend me a cook book!

Andy, go for Nigella Express. It's got lots of quick and fairly simple recipes :)

But tell Gandy to get into the kitchen and cook you some pie!
 
Nigella Lawson - How to Eat.

We've got quite a few of both her's and Jamie Oliver's book. I find her recipes easy to follow/understand and also they aren't overly complicated.
 
Have a look at Nigel Slaters books. Real food/Appetite and Real cooking. Non poncey cooking with easily available ingredients. Classics with a lift and loads of options on tweaking them.

The reason I recommend him over loads of others like delia is because you buy ingredients for something in delias books and hardly use the stuff again until you try that one recipe again. They are good books to read to learn about techniques but I find the recipes not that interesting personally.

Apart from her lemon meringue that is :)

Most of my books are baking books but for proper man food you can beat slater :)

In all seriousness I'd say dont buy any books but get yourself a subscription to either Good food magazine or Delicious, you can look at both in your supermarket. You will get a far better mix of stuff you can make after a hard day at work and more elaborate stuff for weekends.

I make my own folder up by tearing out recipes from those. I use that far more than any cook book I've bought. I have about 60 cookbooks on everything from Cookies to Fondue and the magazines are still my first point of call. A sub for a year costs less than a decent cookbook too.
 
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