Bear in mind that I originally got into this way of eating to help my husband lose weight - we had no idea at that point that he might have blood sugar problems and only found out when he went into hospital for an unrelated incident. So some of the books are just about the diet, not about diabetes.
Books I find helpful:
'Bloodsugar 101' is a book and a website with lots of simple explanations and some complicated stuff if you need it. It is American, unfortunately, so the blood glucose units need conversion.
Dr Charles Clark has written more than one book about the low-carb diet, only he tends to call it 'high protein' presumably to avoid the bad press that Dr Atkins always got! The one we started with is called 'The New High Protein Diet' and we both found it very easy to understand and follow. It has recipes in it. Bear in mind that as a diabetic you may not be able to tolerate a slice of ordinary toast for breakfast, which he mentions in the book as a possibility. His diabetes specific book is called 'The Diabetes Revolution' but that has quite a lot of detail in it about how to reduce insulin when going on the new diet, which makes it sound more complicated than it really is for T2s. Remember that if you aren't taking insulin, you don't have to worry about all that side of it.
I really like 'Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet' and the accompanying cookbook. They also have a webpage engagingly named 'Pig2Twig'<g>. Again, they are aimed at weight loss rather than diabetics but they are great for people who really enjoy food and enjoy cooking and are heartbroken at the idea of never being able to cook thgeir favourite things. The cookbook has some quirky ideas that really work, like cooking batches of little 'mini crustless sausage quiche' things in muffin tins and then microwaving them for breakfast. They also have some quite good stuff about emotional background to overeating, so if you are also needing to lose weight that might strike a chord. They were also the ones who got me onto the idea of protein shakes, which may not be the world's greatest gourmet experience but for me they fill the niche of a 'Oh, no, I've got to have something but I'm going out in five minutes' snack which might previously have been filled by a sandwich.
Most low-carb diets for weightloss start off with two really strict weeks to get you over the hump of being addicted to sugar and starch and give you a good experience of losing weight quickly. You don't have to do that - it might help you to avoid being tempted off the straight and narrow, but for the purposes of controlling blood sugar you could just start cutting out the obvious culprits and work from there. A gradual improvement is fine, and if you test quite a bit to start with you'll get the hang of what you can and can't cope with.
One instant breakfast/lunch idea I didn't mention is to have sliced ham and sliced swiss cheese in the fridge. Put a slice of ham on top of a slice of cheese, roll it up and eat (or add to lunchbox). You can also roll it round some salad.
