Lisa Medved is the author of The Engraver’s Secret, a novel with a dual timeline set in modern-day and seventeenth-century Antwerp. The Engraver’s Secret is a story about family secrets and father-daughter relationships, the consequences of betrayal and prejudice, and the challenges of learning to trust and forgive.
The Engraver’s Secret was published by HarperCollins Australia in April 2024 in Australia and New Zealand, in UK and Ireland in April 2025, and in USA and Canada in September 2025. It was translated into Dutch and published as De Graveur by Horizon Publishing in February 2022 in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Lisa is currently working on her second novel, which is set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and post-WWI London, focusing on the art of Gustav Klimt and two women searching for where they belong in the world.
Books
A Journey begins…
Fiction writers create new worlds and breathe life into characters and creatures, limited only by their imaginations. Inspiration comes from dark corners of everyday life to magnificent vistas of the natural world, from commonplace objects that bring comfort to masterpieces that lift our souls.
‘This world is but a canvas to our imagination.’
Henry David Thoreau
MUSINGS
Thoughts on writing, reading and life…
Melbourne Chill to Icelandic Thrill
I’ve recently swapped my summer sandals for woolly socks and winter boots, having returned to...
Research, AI and Historical Fiction
For the past eleven months, I’ve been hibernating in my study, working on the latest draft of my...
Building Layers
I’m currently working on the latest draft of my second novel, which is a dual timeline set in...
