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@Oliver Schick
The best introductory cookbook that I've seen is "Die vegane Küche" by Ingrid Newkirk, but I've only seen that in German. The edition doesn't say what the original English version was called, unfortunately. It could be 'The Compassionate Cook', which is apparently a classic, but I don't have it. The recipes are simple and easy but very effective and transformed my mother from a reluctant into an enthusiastic vegan cook (she's vegetarian herself). (I also recently saw quite a good book by a German cook called Attila Hildmann which wasted no time in including vegan versions of several tricky-to-make-vegan German staples such as the ur-German Döner Kebap.) Sorry, probably not much help unless you read German.
The Linda Majzlik series is very simple and straightforward, although there are a lot of books to buy! I also really like 'Vegan Deli' by Joanne Stepaniak, but it's a bit specialised. I'd avoid the old warhorses like 'Eva Batt's Vegan Cooking', which is totally basic.
I generally cook from a mixture of all cookbooks, even Robert Carrier's extremely animal product-heavy doorstop 'The Robert Carrier Cookbook'. It's useful in that you learn lots of techniques of how to veganise things. I generally find it extremely easy to veganise vegetarian recipes. My favourites are the first two RASA cookbooks by Das Sreedharan, as I've probably mentioned about a dozen times in this thread already.