Welcome to Anne Hines.com

Once described as “Canada's answer to Irma Bombeck,” Anne Hines began her
writing career as the humour/lifestyle columnist for Canadian Living magazine
before spending six years as a contributing editor to Chatelaine where her
humourous articles on everyday life appeared regularly. She has published two
novels; Fishing Up The Moon (Pedlar Press, 1998) and The Spiral Garden (McArthur &
Co, 2005), and a collection of nonfiction humour, A Year In HineSight
(McArthur & Co, 2002) Recently Hines completed her fourth novel 'Parting Gifts', non-fiction notes on life, love and loss.” She is also enrolled part-time in a
Masters of Theology degree program at University of Toronto; her goal being
“to graduate while there is still religion.” Anne lives in Toronto with her
family.

You can contact Anne Hines through email at: annemhines@gmail.com

Praise for Anne Hines,
"The mind behind The Spiral Garden has a fine intelligence, a delightful sense of humour, very liberal views, an impressive knowledge of religions, and is unabashedly Canadian." - Globe and Mail

"[The Spiral Garden is] An intoxicating mix ... Hines distills her impressive academic, spiritual and literary knowledge into a provocative cocktail ... zips from laugh-out-loud humour to profundity and back again." - Quill and Quire

Click on a book cover to learn more about Anne Hines' works.
Coming soon: Coming from McArthur & Co., fall 2008
Parting Gifts: Notes on loss, love and life
by Anne Hines (nonfiction)

"A humourous and insightful story about finding the wisdom in our own hearts."

"The hilarious, critically acclaimed novel about religion and spirituality ...and how to reconcile the two."

 

 

"Canada's answer to Irma Bombeck" offers up wit and wisdom on everyday life. From four years of columns in Canadian Living and Chatelaine magazines."

 

 

"Neslted between two of the most formidable voices of the the Old Testament, Ecclesiastes, which does not love women and Isaiah, which loves them less, is one short book which has disturbed clergy and baffled Biblical scholars for over two thousand years. Song of Songs, also called The Song of Solomon is an erotic love poem."

This book is about loss.
In an average day, I loose my scissors, my car keys, my grocery list, my patience and my mind. In an average life, almost all of us are destined to lose our way, our bearings, our youth, our hearts and our heads.