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gaucho777, you must finish the Deptford Trilogy! It's all great. Yes, Fifth Business is the first volume, but they are not placed in a clear order. Doesn't matter which you read next. You really can't go wrong with Robertson Davies. His other trilogies, the Salterton Trilogy and the Cornish Trilogy, are also required reading. I think I liked the Cornish Trilogy best... .
Speaking of magic, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susannah Clarke, is great. Like the Harry Potter series she imagines a world where most people don't believe in magic, but some know better... but it is completely different in every other way.
Oh, and Tony Hadland has his fingers in Mike Burrows' book as well, as co-author or something. Guy gets around (by bike, I assume).