FOOD: My Favourite Healthy Cookbooks

I've always had a passion for cooking and an interest in nutrition, even if I didn't always follow the good advice, but over the past nine months or so I've really been focused on eating healthily and 'cleanly'. Like I said, I've always been interested in nutrition but it was my quest to try and overcome
my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M.E (post about my battle with M.E. coming shortly) that really kicked my interest up a gear and has encouraged a hell of a lot of research and a few nutritional experiments. I'm going to go into further detail about my nutritional/diet preferences in future posts but for now I just wanted to share with you some of the books that I really rate and have found incredibly useful and inspiring.
Out of the selection above I have to say that my favourite book is actually my newest acquisition and that is Madeleine Shaw's brilliant Get the Glow. This is one of those very rare books where I actually want to try every single recipe without exception. They all look delicious, are all obviously very healthy but without sacrificing ingredients like meat and dairy and are not over complicated in the slightest, in a purely positive sense. The next book that I get equally as much use out of and shares the same principal is Hemsley and Hemsley's The Art Of Eating Well. Again, full of gorgeous recipes and like 'Get the Glow', is more than just a cookbook as it has a really good and quite thorough section before the recipes even start about the principles of healthy eating.
Susan Jane White's The Extra Virgin Kitchen, It's All Good by Gwyneth Paltrow and The Blender Girl by Tess Masters are all similar in principle with some lovely recipes but I reach for them less often and find they take a bit more effort in terms of ingredients. Lastly, two books that share a different and much stricter approach to healthy eating are Kris Carr's Crazy, Sexy, Diet and the Deliciously Ella cookbook by Ella Woodward. These books still share the principle of eating unprocessed, wholesome, natural food but go that extra step by being completely vegan. Now strictly speaking Kris Carr's book isn't really a cookbook as such but more of an informative 'how to' guide with a small recipe section at the back but the information is incredibly interesting (if not a little too OTT in her enthusiastic tone!). If you haven't heard of Kris Carr her story is quite incredible as she was diagnosed with terminal cancer but instead of accepting this she turned to this way of eating to prolong her life and it actually worked. This is the book that Ella Woodward got her inspiration from to recover from POTS and start her blog. I gave this diet a go for two months to try and recover from M.E. but unfortunately I had to stop because it didn't agree with my body and was making me weaker, however I do go along with a lot of what they say but you have to listen to your body and mine wasn't coping too well without animal protein.
So whether you want to go full on into a healthier way of eating or you just want to include a few more healthy meals into your weekly repertoire then I hope I've given you a bit of an insight into some of the ones that are available and what I think of them. Also, if you have any other recommendations please comment below as I'm always on the hunt for some more good ones.