Even with the vast number of recipes available on the internet these days, there’s nothing quite like leafing through a beautiful book full of recipes. It’s a medium that’s stronger than ever before, with cookbooks topping bestseller charts throughout the year. If you’re anything like us then you’ll have shelves upon shelves of them in your home – some kept in pristine condition, others earmarked, stained and scrawled over after years of use.

It’s this national love for cookbooks that has prompted us to start our very own cookbook club. Each month we’ll select a cookbook that we think stands out from the rest and ask you, the Great British Chefs community, to cook a recipe from it. We’ll publish a small selection of recipes on our site so, even if you don’t already have the book, you can still get involved and see how your cooking compares to everyone else’s. Apply to join the Facebook group here and take a look at this month's book (and recipes) below. We've also included the winning post from last month's book, as well as some of our other favourite entries.

This June, we're cooking from Centrepiece, the brilliant new cookbook from Helen Graham, former executive chef of Bubala and one of the UK's most exciting voices in vegetable-led cooking.

Inspired by the flavours of the Middle East, North Africa and Helen's Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, Centrepiece is packed with bold, vibrant recipes that put vegetables exactly where they belong: at the heart of the table. From showstopping mains and flavour-packed sides to inventive desserts, every recipe is designed to make everyday ingredients feel exciting.

Have a look at some of the recipes from the book, including courgettes with peanut tahini and pickled fennel, roast cauliflower with saffron tahini and cranberry-chilli oil, and za'atar and cherry chocolate fridge cake bars.

Join us throughout June as we cook our way through one of the year's most talked-about cookbooks.

For May, we cooked from Paul Ainsworth's For the Love of Food – a celebration of comforting, flavour-packed dishes inspired by the chef's Cornwall roots, travels and restaurant career.

This month's winner is Stephen Kinnaird, who took on the Meatball Marinara Panuozzo (pp. 87–88), a recipe that combines homemade pizza dough rolls, rich tomato fondue and juicy meatballs.

Cooking on his Big Green Egg, Stephen adapted parts of the method to make the most of live-fire cooking. The dough was baked on a pizza stone, while the meatballs were roasted in a cast iron pan before being finished in the tomato fondue and topped with grated Parmesan.

While he found the tomato fondue slightly sweeter than his own taste, the final result was a clear success.

"I've been told that I need to make this again, so another successful dish from this book!"

Congratulations to Stephen on being our May Cookbook Club winner.

Take a look at the recipe and explore the rest of this month’s entries below.

Make sure you post photos along with commentary of the dishes you cook this month in our Facebook group to be in with the chance of winning.