Whether you're looking for cake-baking inspiration, want to dazzle your dinner party guests, or simply long to try some new recipes, there's a glut of cookbooks to choose from. Just click through our gallery to discover the latest and best cookbooks around...

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If you've been avidly watching the current BBC2 series of The Great British Bake-Off, you'll be desperate to try out the yummy recipes in this collection. You'll find the recipes graded 'easy' (like apple tart), 'takes a little time' (nectarine and blueberry galette), 'needs a little skill' (peach frangipane tart), and 'best of the bake-off' (lychee and raspberry tart). There are judge's signature bakes and technical challenges too, plus 'showstopping techniques' tutorials, including how to pipe icing.

The Great British Bake-Off: How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers by Linda Collister (BBC Books), £20 from the allaboutyou bookshop 

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Preserving isn't just about jam - have you ever tried making curd, vinegar, chutney or cordial? These treats taste so much better when they are homemade, and they make thoughtful gifts. In this bible of conserving, you'll learn how to fill your cupboards with delicious little pots and jars, from purple fig and pomegranate jam to sweet blackcurrant vinegar and damson gin, and from pickled fennel to carrot and coriander relish.

Salt Sugar Smoke by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley) £20 from the allaboutyou bookshop

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Food writer Tom Parker Bowles scribbles his best recipes in a kitchen notebook - his favourite home-cooking recipes only make it into the  book once they've been tried and tested several times. This book publishes his notes, rich in home-cooking staples from pastas to roasts and curries. A beautiful book that might inspire you to start your own kitchen notebook.

Let's Eat by Tom Parker Bowles (Pavilion), £25 from the allaboutyou bookshop

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With her spiced versions of western recipes (like veggie-burgers and cottage pie) as well as Indian dishes like delectable pistachio curry and paneer tikka masala, this is a fabulous book. Even meat-eaters will love it!

Anjum's Indian Vegetarian Feast by Anjum Anand (Quadrille), £13.99, from the allaboutyou ookshop

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Emma Goss-Custard believes that gluten-free cooking can be every bit as tasty as 'normal' cooking - and of course, it's relatively healthy and slimming. You'll need to shop around a bit for some of the ingredients (like sorghum and millet flour) but if the result is bloat-free brownies, it's worthwhile, especially when they turn out as delicious as the ones in this book.

Honeybuns by Emma Goss-Custard (Pavilion), £14.99, from the allaboutyou bookshop 

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If you'd like to cook more seasonally - using fresh local produce as it becomes available through the year - this stunning guide is a great guide. Each month you'll find out what's in season, discover the recipes of the moment and find out what you need to do for any foods growing in the garden. The recipes are exquisite, concentrating on  key seasonal flavours of each month.

The British Larder by Madalene Bonvini-Hamel (Bloomsbury), £30 from the allaboutyou bookshop


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Jamie Oliver is a big April Bloomfield fan and we can see why. April (who set up the Spotted Pig, the Breslin and the John Dory restaurants) is revered by chefs for her hearty, gutsy British/Italian food. You might assume from the title of this cookbook that all the recipes are for pork - they're not. She includes recipes for meats and poultry, seafood and plenty of vegetarian dishes too. Interspersed with the recipes are lovely reflections about how April became a professional foodie. She does get seriously cheffy with some wild recipes like  pig's ear salad but there are lots of down-to-earth crowd-pleasing recipes too, including traditional cabbage and bacon and sausage-stuffed onions. 

A Girl and Her Pig by April Bloomfield (Canongate), £25 from the  allaboutyou bookshop

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All the classic Italian recipes you'll ever need are in this colourful collection of family favourites. Italian chef Gennaro Contaldo shares family recipes for divine risotto, pizza, pasta, bruschetta and polenta. And they are so fabulously authentic! Gennaro Contaldo is the quintessential Italian granddad whose recipes come from generations of home-cooking. This is a book for anyone who wants to get away from fuss and stereotypes to understand the way real Italian families cook - and eat.

Gennaro: Let's cook Italian by Gennaro Contaldo (Anova Pavilion), £20 from the allaboutyou bookshop


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This is an unusual collection of sophisticated (but not too finicky) recipes to expand your weekly cooking repertoire, with influences from many world cuisines. Divided into mealtime sections it's brimming with adventurous ideas like tomato, red onion and capiscum soup with feta cream, and vanilla-braised duck leg on ginger coconut rice with mango salsa.  Yum!

Everyday by Peter Gordon (£25, Jacqui Small) from our online allaboutyou bookshop


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From lemon Victoria sandwich cake to leek tart to apple and quince crumble, this is a beautifully presented, day-dreamy collection of traditional (and traditionally-inspired) British bakes from the National Trust. Sybil Kapoor has devoted a section to each baking ingredient - and explains how best to use each to its most delectable potential. Just gorgeous!

Simply Baking by Sybil Kapoor (National Trust), £25, from the allaboutyou bookshop


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