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’s second novel, Portrait of a Scandal, is due to be published by HarperCollins Australia in June 2027. It is set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and post-WWI London, focusing on the art of Gustav Klimt and two women struggling to achieve their dreams. It is a story of ambition, art, betrayal, family secrets and the enduring power of women’s voices to be heard across the generations.