J.I.M. Stewart was a novelist, professor, and critic from Scotland. He is known for his crime fiction books featuring Inspector John Appleby.

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November, 1850 – 3 December, 1894) has been one of my favorite authors since I could read. He is know for such works as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher and historian known for A Treatise on Human Nature, Essays Moral and Political, and an exhaustive History of England

Kenneth Grahame (8 March, 1859 – 6 July, 1932) was a Scottish writer mostly known for his children’s classic The Wind in the Willows.

The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith was my first Isabel Dalhousie novel (but the sixth in the series), a philosopher who pontificates about the mundane and lives in her own private hell where every word, gesture and movement has to be thought about, absorbed and dissected.