With over 120 songs and a listening time of more than eight hours, this is the ultimate writing playlist to help you win NaNoWriMo. Read more

London Eyes is one month old. .To celebrate I made a monster playlist of songs about London or songs by artists from London. Some of the songs are old and some are new, some are slow and some are fast. Some are polished to perfection, others are not. Read more

I'm spending today in Hamburg before flying home to Amsterdam tonight. I've spent the weekend at MS Dockville and despite being unwell, being on my own and being caught in more rain showers than I'd like, it's been a fantastic weekend. I can now say with confidence that going read more

A summer-themed playlist with all our songs from the summer of 2014… Get ready to dance! Read more

I was last in Lisbon in September 2012. Among my many first impressions of Lisbon were the heat and the light that bounced off the black and white tiles. Neither of these things when I returned last week for four days with two of my best friends. More stories and read more

I returned from Ljubljana in love. Yes, with a new city, but also with an art form. Street theatre. More about my adventures in street theatre another day, but if you want a brief introduction to the festival I attended, called Ana Desetnica, here's a video worth watching..https://www. Read more

Today's playlist is one you should listen to while reading Night Bus. It's a story about the life and dreams of a young single woman in London and the unusual things that can happen on the night bus home..http://open.spotify.com/user/frankiebird/playlist/48jdztNLEuaoIosn8tNSg1.And to make that a bit easier, read more

Another productive and full-of-work week... done. Just a few more to go and then I'm travelling again. Not far... but far enough. That's my favourite kind of travel sometimes. Here's a playlist I listened to early one morning as I tried to get ahead of myself with a read more

And we have lift off...For the last six months or so I've been working on getting a not-so-secret project off the ground and it launches (officially, like with a website and what-not) today!It's the reason I went to Austria (twice) back in March and it's the reason read more

Here we go. Another week, another playlist I've loved listening to recently on 8tracks. This one is inspired by London and would certainly make for a great playlist for anyone with a pending visit to that big, grey, wonderful city. Enjoy!http://8tracks.com/mixes/852014 And here are my photos from read more

This started off as a playlist of love songs. Then I realised all the singers were men. So I added some more of my favourite songs by my favourite men and this is the result. It flows from folk to indie to soulful to funk to rock'n'roll.Enjoy!http://8tracks. Read more

I have been finishing edits of my second short story collection and slow, easy, atmospheric music is an incremental ingredient in this process. While I do like Spotify playlists, I keep finding myself going back to 8tracks because I prefer the choices of other playlists that then pop up for me read more

Now I'm back in Amsterdam and spending most of my days at my desk catching up on a lot of work and writing I've been trawling 8tracks for the best playlists and I stumbled upon this one by clareseverns. I put it on when we had some friends over for read more