Best everyday family cookbook?

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I've been out for a lovely vegan lunch today and whilst I'm not intending to become a vegan, I can see lots of reasons to eat more vegan dishes.

However, after a meat/dairy free meal I often feel hungry with dishes based around lightly cooked veg. Who can recommend a good cookbook for everyday that includes substantial meals and filling lunches? E. G the dish I had today was a bombay potato salad with chickpeas and green beans. And delicious. Other than that, a veg chilli is the extent of my ideas for a satisfying meal.

Thug Kitchen is a big winner in our house

I’m really impressed with Fearne Cotton’s new book called Happy Vegan.
The best all-round family book is probably Bosh www.waterstones.com/book/bosh/henry-firth/ian-theasby/9780008262907

Not vegan, but as a vegetarian of many years we are enjoying the recipes of Jamie Oliver's new book. Veg .

Oh and Hugh FW's Veg Every Day and Light and Easy which isn't strictly vegan but has lots of GF etc. good ideas for quick and nourishing meals.

Hugh Fewrnley Whittingstall Veg is great. And Madhur Jeffery- I think it’s called South Asian Vegetarian Cooking or something like that. I’ll look it up when I go home. It’s about 4 inches thick and has loads of lovely food....

I'm on the lookout for good books, got Bosh! and Jamie's Veg book.

Dirty Vegan looks good and its only £8 in The Works at the mo. Agree the Fearne cotton book also looks good.

thenverending There is a vegan magazine which is very helpful. It's called Vegan Food and Living. It has lots of recipes and explanations about how to make aquavaba etc.

Bosh!, Jamie Oliver Veg, Hugh FW Veg and Meera Sohda Fresh India are my top picks. Can often pick them up cheap on world of books website too.

I like Bosh & Ferns book good variety and you don’t need lots of random ingredients either. Jamie Oliver website is good too.
Thug kitchen is next on my list.

The river cottage veg book is great, loads of really good family meals in there.

My favourite vegan book so far is Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, packed with a huge variety of breakfasts, snacks, full on dinners and bakes. Everything I have made from this book has worked, and I'm not a brilliant cook by any means .

I love that the meals don't rely on soya for the protein too (DS is allergic so this is great as it means one meal fits all).

Oh and also that most of the time it relies on basic ingredients that I will already have in. I hate it when you feel like cooking something and realise that you're missing some stupidly obscure ingredient that is stocked only in the health food shop in town 5 miles away.

Just to second the Ferne Cotton recommendation- the Happy Vegan. I have used it so much recently. The chocolate and tahini brownies in it are just delicious. Every time I offer them to someone who is not vegan, saying - these brownies are vegan- the person looks a bit resigned, then bites in, looks amazed & says wow these are really nice!