The best cookbook I own and I own a lot of them, is 'Slow Cooking' by Joanne Glynn. Beautifully photographed and handsomely laid out, this is a book for people who take pleasure in cooking. Most of the recipes are quite long, up to 6 hours for some of them, but the preparation time is quite short and not too difficult.
These are meals which you prepare and then let sit on or in the stove for hours, happily bubbling away. I have cooked a number of these recipes for friends and they have always gone crazy over the food.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slow-Cooking-Not...TF8&s=books