Recommend me some epic magic without much fighting

[Shuffle093]

You could also try The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudy Canavan and I'd also throw Sabriel by Garth Nix into the pot as well.

I can second the Black magician and Sabriel books I think particularly the Sabriel ones going off what you have said.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

And by coincidence, a 5* review of Night's Master has just come up on my Twitter timeline (from the Fantasy Literature site). I enjoyed Lee's The Birthgrave when I read it a few years ago, so this has definitely been added to my TBR list (along with Three parts Dead, which I've just bought on Kindle).

In my opinion, between The Birthgrave and Night's Master Lee improved immensely, both in style and in the breadth of her imagination.

So if you liked the one you might like the other even better.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patrica McKillip

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Steve Cockayne, Wanderers & Islanders

 

[hitmouse]

The Dying Earth stories by Jack Vance.
Lyonesse by the same author might scrape past your criteria.