A trail across a bleak landscape of lies
From a high vantage point, as though we are in a police helicopter in search of tell-tale signs of a crime, we find ourselves looking down over a bleak moorland landscape. The scene is dramatically cut through by a single salient feature, a winding road, its silvery surface a glistening snail-trail. The cover photo of Nick Basannavarâs book Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965 is powerfully evocative of the workâs sombre contents, especially the Moors Murders â sadistic killings that became the most notorious criminal enterprise in later 20th century Britain, still regularly revisited in the media after well […]
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