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    Looking for your next read? How about an intriguing mixture of mystery, adventure, fantasy epic and drama? If so, I recommend Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, which is the first of a four-part series. It is a big read, for sure, but it´s full of great characters, suspense and fantastic twists and turns. Curious? Here are some more details (no spoilers, of course) ...   The Story of Shadowmarch At the uppermost edge of the northern kingdoms, towers shrouded in mist, lies Southmarch Castle. For hundreds of years it has remained hidden from the affairs of empire. Now its isolation can protect it no more. Southmarch is under siege; from both its neighbours, without, and the more insidious enemies who would destroy it from within. Even further to the north, within the ancient walls of Qul-na-Qar, in a land of silence and gloom, the Twilight People gather to hear Ynnir, the blind king, pronounce the dark fate of humankind. In the south, the Autarch, the god-king who ha...