The weird and wonderful converge in a postapocalyptic take on self-expression at the home of Steampunk in Aotearoa — Oamaru. Award-winning photographer Dean Purcell teamed up with fashion and creative ...

You know how New Zealanders are always coming up with the wackiest ideas, right? Well, the latest deed that caught our attention has something to do with tea cups, radio-controlled cars, and a lot of ...

OAMARU — The woman in the pink frock coat announced herself as steam curled from a strange brass contraption on her back. "I am Lady Sarsaparilla Ovabyte, of the Coventry Ovabytes," she said. "We are ...

LEADING THE CHARGE: Libratory owner Damien McNamara and League of Victorian Imagineers member Helen Jansen in Mr McNamara's Steampunk gallery in Oamaru. Steampunk has taken the town by storm. Photo: ...

In Oamaru: New Zealand's living Victorian town, 176 pages paperback $50 www.penguin.co.nz author Paul Sorrell and photographer Graham Warman celebrate the town's outstanding architectural heritage and ...